This is the helicopter taking off to return to iran. The other two reached their destination safely, but irans Interior Minister said on sunday that the president s aircraft had experience a hard landing and communication had been lost. Several countries have offered to help in the search, which was been hampered by bad weather as you can see from these pictures issued by the azerbaijan red crescent society. Overnight, turkey launched a drone to search for the missing helicopter. This map tracks its progress you can see where it concentrated its search. In the early hours of the morning, turkey said it had identified a source of heat, which it suspected to be the wreckage of a helicopter carrying irans president raisi. It said it had shared the coordinates with the iranian teams. Lets speak to patricia degennaro, professor of International Security at new york university. Welcome to the programme. Thank you for being with us. At this stage we dont have many details, as weve reported, s
Helicopters that were in this aerial convoy and only one of them crashed. But yes, it was carrying the president. It was carrying the Foreign Minister hossein amir of the law at least three crew members, the governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province. Thats again where the ceremony had been taking place on the border with azerbaijan is separate country. Of course and then the friday prayer, imam who leads the friday prayers in the city of tabriz. Thats the Major Metropolitan Center in that part of iran paula, i have done a road trip through this part of iran to the border, to turkey from tehran and i can personally attest to the fact that this area is rugged. It is very sparsely populated as well. We perhaps explain why you would have such a high level delegation traveling by helicopter because any kind of trip by road would have taken hours and hours and also been on potentially the dangerous roads. But this is a rugged and remote place and an indicator of perhaps why the iranian authori
Delivered, right to your door, download the free Breaking News hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday. Im for greek a whitfield, and we begin with Breaking News that could have Global Implications irans president Ebrahim Raisi has been involved in a Helicopter Crash in a remote part of the country. Raisis condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the exact site of the crash because of fog and bad weather Iran Supreme Leader is calling for everyone in that country to pray for raisis health and vowing there will be no disruption in irans government. Weve got full coverage of this developing story lets begin with cnns Nic Robertson, nick, what are we learning about the crash and the search for the Site Conditions are tough. The fog, the rain, the temperatures. Its cold. But the search is going on into the night. We understand that army is being deployed. The irgc thats the elite military and iran, as well as the police. There already medics we
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