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The president, who died in a helicopter accident, was at one point touted to succeed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He is seen as the embodiment of ultraconservative orthodoxy, a man against change and in favor of repression

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the countrys foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a huge rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray.

Mojtaba has long been rumoured to be a potential successor to his father as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the untimely death of President Ebrahim Raisi only makes his path easier

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. He played a crucial role in Iran over the past four decades, with human rights groups saying he was responsible for thousands of deaths.

Iran’s state television reported that there were “no signs” of life among the helicopter’s passengers. Get all the LIVE updates here - Newsx

The tragic death of President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian comes at a time when the region is passing through a critical stage, the clash with Israel and its support to Palestine in the Gaza war. The deaths will be mourned but there will be little to no change in the substance of policies

Ebrahim Raisi, who was seen by some as a potential successor to the 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died in a chopper crash | World News

Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, who died aged 63, had risen through the Islamic Republics theocracy from a hardline prosecutor to an uncompromising president.Raisi was born in 1960 to a religious family in Mashhad. At age five,...

The hardline cleric was seen as a possible successor to the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei before dying in a helicopter crash

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. He played a crucial role in Iran over the past four decades, with human rights groups saying he was responsible for thousands of deaths.