Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country's foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, were declared dead Monday in a helicopter crash, Iranian state media reported.
There were other senior officials on the helicopter, though no survivors had been found at the site of the crash as of 8 a.m. local time, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
Earlier, IRNA reported that the president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society confirmed that rescue and search teams had identified Raisi's crashed helicopter. The aircraft carrying Raisi, Amir Abdollahian and other senior officials went down in a mountainous part of northwestern Iran as they returned from an event along Iran's border with Azerbaijan.
There were other senior officials on the helicopter, though no survivors had been found at the site of the crash as of 8 a.m. local time, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
Earlier, IRNA reported that the president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society confirmed that rescue and search teams had identified Raisi's crashed helicopter. The aircraft carrying Raisi, Amir Abdollahian and other senior officials went down in a mountainous part of northwestern Iran as they returned from an event along Iran's border with Azerbaijan.
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