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Reporting there are no signs of life. Seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ibrahim Raisi and others. News of reeses death comes nearly 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. Rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. A number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. The chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down. The crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east, with War Raging In Gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel that was in response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, Hardliner Raisi became president in a historically, uncompetitive election in 2021. Irans Supreme Leader is stressing the business of irans government will continue no matter what. Under the iranian constitution. In irans first Vice President takes over if the president dies
York. Iranian state media is reporting there are no signs of life seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ebrahim Raisi and others. The news of reeses death comes nearly 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. Rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. A number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. The chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down. The crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east, with the War Raging In Gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel in response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, Hardliner Raisi became president in an historically uncompetitive election in 2021. Previously, the chief justice, he has overseen a period of intensified repression of dissent in a nation convulsed by Youth Led Protests against clerical rule. Agai
Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has announced five days of public mourning. The search, in a mountainous area in North Western iran near tabriz, has been hampered by bad weather. Graham satchell has the story. Search teams have been scouring the mountains of north west iran all night. Thick fog and heavy rain have hampered efforts, but in the early hours of this morning, this, a drone sent by turkey identified a source of heat. Footage shows an aerial view of a landscape at night and a Dark Blotch On what appears to be a hillside. When rescuers eventually reached the wreckage on foot, they found the helicopter, which had been carrying irans president and Foreign Minister was completely burned with no signs of life. And soon after, confirmation that both irans president , Ebrahim Raisi, and Foreign Minister have been killed in the crash. Translation the servant of the iranian people, Ebrahim Raisi, the president of the republic of iran, was martyred while serving the people of
Iranian analyst abbas faiz gave me his thoughts and reflections on the events of the day so far. Well, i think the scenario that they would probably find the occupants of the helicopter alive may have become somewhat unlikely. So the next scenario might be that they probably know, based on past practice, past practice of the government of the Islamic Republic, they probably know what has happened. And then, again, we have two possibilities. The first possibility is that if, for example, Ebrahim Raisi is still alive, but injured. In that case, i think they would announce the news straightaway and very quickly. But if there is another news for example, that, you know, he is not alive the past practice of the Islamic Republic has been to suppress that news, to suppress that news for quite a few days. And this happened at the time of the death of ayatollah khomeini, and they really announced it several days later. Now, why would they suppress the news . That is really a very big question a