Breaking news out of the middle east, Especial Msnbc our from irans state tv. They are reporting that irans president , Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a Helicopter Crash on sunday. The president was traveling back from a visit to azerbaijan, when the helicopter he was in made a crash landing. For hours, Rescue Workers were searching for the wreckage and any survivors. Have found the crash site, and there were no survivors. That weather is believed to have contributed to the crash, and it certainly slowed down a Search And Rescue efforts which were going on for hours. U. S. Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, earlier on sunday saying intelligence authorities informed him that there is, quote, no evidence of foul play in this crash, adding that it looks like an accident. It is still being fully investigated. The death of irans president comes during a volatile time in the region. Iran and israel have exchanged attacks directly on each other, just last month, and militant groups, backed by iran have also attacked israel, as well as ships in the red sea. That is just a part of it. The countrys Supreme Leader, the ayatollah, still remains in control over iran after this unfortunate news. Lets go to nbc chief Foreign Correspondent richard engel. Richard, as you have been following this story, what is the right way to look at this, summarize it, and what are the reactions you are looking for from the region . Reporter so, this is a shocking turn of events. A Helicopter Crash, i am also hearing from sources that foul weather, but not foul play, are believed to be responsible. The fact that the president was traveling in this area in high fog does indicate that dense fog, those indicate that the weather was most likely a factor. He was traveling from azerbaijan, three helicopter convoy. One of the helicopters crashed. We first learned about this, about 12 hours ago. That meant darkness in iran, Search Parties Dispatching to the areas, other aircraft as well, drowns. According to this according to iranians, after a 12 hour search, or perhaps longer, but that is how long this has been in the public domain, we have been speculating what this meant, there is a presumption that he did not survive that Helicopter Crash because of word went down in dense forest, a mountainous area between iran and azerbaijan. Now, there are two questions. What happens in the shortterm . How does iran find a new president , how does it find a new leadership, and then, what happens for the future of iran as the islamic theocracy the revolutionary theocracy that has been in place since 1979. Right seat was the presumptive successor. He is one of only two names ever mentioned in iran talking about the succession of the Supreme Leader is a taboo subject but this is not a country where you have, like in the United States, On Cable Channels or national television, where we have almost endless speculation about what will happen and who comes up. This is not something, there, that is allowed to be discussed. It is considered to highly sensitive. But, now, this private conversation has been forced out into the open, because of the unexpected death of the president. Those two questions will be, who takes over immediately, according to their constitution, it should be the Vice President. He is expected to have elections within 50 days. They might not do that because these are uncharted times, they may want to hold off longer while they try to work out what is the larger issue, which is, who is going to replace, now, the Supreme Leader, ayatollah ali from any. This will be something that israel is watching extraordinarily closely because we are in the middle of a hot war in the middle east, a hot war that, just last month, have the potential of breaking out into a regional war with the United States, and with iran, because of tensions. Iran under raisi, my understanding through many conversations with intelligence sources, did not direct the october 7, to attack, but has certainly been supportive of it and has certainly celebrated and been championing hamas, and it seems quite likely, according to analysts and intelligence sources that i have been talking to, that irans external positions are not going to change. But in the immediate short term, they may have to be slightly more focused on domestic affairs. It could be a period in the very shortterm in which they are not as interested in having a new Oscillatory Round with israel, through hezbollah, potentially, just in the short term, because they have two sort out these very significant Leadership Questions at home. Richard, lets bring in nbc chief National Correspondent keir simmons, in the region of this breaking story. As we were looking at some of the video before, reporting earlier on sunday, the thickness of this fog, as well as, according to irans state media, that many of these 40 or more rescue teams were on foot for two kilometers, trying to get to the site. What were some of the conditions on the lead up, and of course, the question that remains for many just joining us is, why, and how . Reporter it was clearly a very difficult effort, given the importance of those on board the helicopter, a combined effort. An effort that anyone in iran could find, to search for the helicopter, to see if there were any survivors, we can see pictures of mountainous terrain, president raisi was there to inaugurate a dam, the uranian azerbaijani border, and it was foggy. As richard says, it was absolutely foggy and we know that. Keep in mind, this is a region where Conspiracy Theory and fingerpointing, even more, but the picture from Iranian State tv shows terrible weather. We have heard officials, prior to the announcement of the death, we have heard uranian officials talk about the weather. So now, we will wait to see until morning time, but this time, here, in the gulf, just across the water from iran. So, people will be taking this in. Many people will be waking up to this news, right now, and how iran frames it, the blame that iran talks about, whether they talk about issues with the helicopter, or whether they make other kinds of accusations, keep in mind, no matter what the reality, any of those are possible, depending upon the politics in iran, and what the Supreme Leader thinks is expeditious for him, and the stability of iran, that will be the same dream focus, they just lost the president on the Foreign Minister, the primary focus right now will be ensuring stability in their own country, and mr. Concerns, and already, actually, you heard ayatollah khomeini, the Supreme Leader even prior to the announcement that president tracy had died, making a statement, saying, praise god that he will be found but also saying to the iranian people, dont worry, i am paraphrasing, this will not disrupt the politics of the country but he will certainly be helping so. So, i think that this these hours, despite the clear evidence of what is likely to have caused this, these hours will be unpredictable, and instability will be the guiding force, frankly, in these coming hours, and that will be worrying leaders here in the gulf, where i am, all the way to washington. Claudia lallana, international corresponded with us as well. Claudia, as you are looking at the video along with Everyone Else is getting their eyes on the prelude to this Breaking News, from iran state tv that uranian president was killed in a Helicopter Crash, we just got that into us, overnight, what else do we know about this, as keir simmons was just saying, the president of iran was not the only person on this helicopter. The Foreign Ministers, he was saying, were also on this helicopter, unfortunately. Reporter thats right but there was also the Foreign Minister on the helicopter, as well as the governor of east azerbaijan. His name was malik, as well as the Security Detail for tracy, several people, but the two most important people who have died, is the president and the Foreign Minister, according to reran. So, that means there will be of course, a major shakeup in the government following the next few days, now, what we are likely to see in the next few hours is what we saw also overnight, when of course, this was news that was widely anticipated, there were all the indications that rice he lost his life in that crash, we are supposed to be waiting until about half an hour ago, to announce it officially, what we saw was state media, playing out prayers for tracy, asking people to pray, they were also airing images of large groups of people, iranians praying for tracy, so what we expect the state media to do in the next few hours would be to show the outpouring, the morning but uranian people, perhaps praying for tracy, whether that is an indication of what the general feeling across iran is, given the way state media will operate, it will concentrate in particular on that. Now, as richard and kier were saying, we know that it was a very bad weather condition, because we have seen those images of rescuers on foot, trying to reach the location of the crash, and you could basically make out the people, there, because it was a very small short visibility, just a few meters, state media said and in the end, when they reached that site, a couple of hours ago, we got Concert Confirmation from state media that there was no sign of life, only an hour later, with anchors on the main state media channel in iran wearing black, a sign of clear morning, anticipating the news that we were just awaiting to hear, it will be very interesting to hear how this plays out today, of course we will see the uranian people morning, uranian people morning, we will see leaders reacting from around the world. We will also be watching to see if the other leaders will take this opportunity, perhaps, to stir emotions and blame for an agents, from, for instance, israel United States. Or whether it will stick through the most likely cause of the crash, which as far as we know for now was bad weather, or perhaps a combination of bad weather and the condition of the president of iran as well as the Foreign Minister. Claudia, as well as keir simmons and richard engel, stand by for a short break. The question now is, how will the United States react to this . What will they do with the latest development . We will approach that subject when we return on Breaking News of the death of irans president , after this. Esident,. Febreze has a microchip to control Scent Release so it smells firstday fresh for 50 days. 50 days . And its refill reminder light means ill never miss a day of freshness. [ ] looking for a moisturizer that does more than just moisturize . Try Olay Regenerist for 10 benefits in every jar. Olay visibly firms, lifts, and smooths wrinkles, by penetrating the skin, to boost regeneration at the surface cellular level. Try olay. Smile you found it. 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Iran state tv, announcing that the countrys president , Ebrahim Raisi killed in a Helicopter Crash on sunday. Iranian tv confirming that the president of iran was killed in a Helicopter Crash. If you are just joining us on msnbc, leading up to this news, was the word or terms of a hard crash. Where this helicopter was that the president had boarded, along with two other helicopters, along with according to state media. We now know, according to state media, that the crash site you can see on the upper left and then north of iran, that the helicopter of irans president has indeed crashed. No signs of life were found at the crash site. From around the state media as well, as is very clear here, that the fog according to the storyline to today, is consistent with, if this video is close to the location of the crash site. Claudia lavonia is still with us. Claudia, as we look at reactions coming forward from this news, not only from the region, but also from europe, as well as the United States, as in this region, we were discussing, the level of instability to begin with was of quite a notable level. Reporter of course, we received the first reaction as you expect is coming from hamas as you know. Iran and hamas were strongly linked. Iran has supported hamas financially and also with training and speculation of how involved they could have been, or how much it could have helped hamas during the october the seventh attacks, even though iran has always to my denied any direct involvement become us has sent out a statement in the last few minutes, saying that it offers its sincere condolences to the iranian people, and to the ayatollah, and says, we are confident that the Islamic Republic of iran will be able to overcome this great loss. Dear iranian people have ancient institutions capable of dealing with this severe ordeal. This is an official statement from hamas, you would have expected them to be one of the first to react, now, it is about 7 20 in the morning here in rome and in the rest of continental europe. Earlier of course in london, and eastern parts of europe, so we are still creating for reactions from leaders here to come in, and it would be very interesting to see what they are, but this statement from hamas is interesting, because it will say that the ancient institutions capable of dealing with this severe ordeal but it also means that, clearly, as richard was saying, earlier, the death of the president of iran doesnt really create major issues, in the way that iran is run, simply because the main leader of iran is the Supreme Leader, the ayatollah khamenei, as richard was saying, the death of the president Ebrahim Raisi is impactful because he was the frontrunner to replace ali khamenei as Supreme Leader. Right now, iran still has a Supreme Leader, that is the leader that the iranian people answer to, the iranian government answers to, the iranian president answers to. The Supreme Leader. So, this would only be, lets say, a method of finding a new president , with the same, perhaps, hardline policies of raisi, so as not to create any problems, confusions, in the way that this country is being run. But, the one immediate thing that of course we are interested in Art Reactions from around the world. We just got the reaction from hamas and we are waiting for reactions as leaders across europe, especially because i am here, are just waking up. Richard . You the news of the reaction from hamas, lets go over to richard engel. Richard, as we look at something that you have covered very deeply, as you look at the reaction from hamas, what does it mean, to lose one of the key operational leaders, the president of iran, to the very proxy wars that iran has engaged in, in the area but the militant groups they have supported . Does it get a hiccup for the moment . Reporter it probably does not. Hamas is correct in one sense, saying that iran does have institutions, but they are not ancient institutions, theocracy in iran is relatively recent, is relatively new. You have the systems of kings, and shaws that