Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash aboard a US-made Bell 212, according to reports. The helicopter was between 40 and 50 years of age, experts told Reuters, based on available data. US sanctions may have prevented Iran from adequately maintaining the helicopter, one analyst said. The helicopter that crashed on Sunday with Iran’s […]
Last night Iran confirmed that its president and foreign minister died in a helicopter crash. The condolences from sympathetic regimes were swift. The PRC declared that the Chinese people had lost a good friend. The Kremlin mourned a reliable partner and Prime Minister Orban of Hungary, whose government has pursued deeper trade relations with Tehran […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Monday said it had been unable, due largely to logistical reasons, to accept an Iranian request for assistance following a helicopter crash over the weekend that killed President Ebrahim Raisi, as Washington offered its condolences. The rare request from Iran, which views the United States and Israel as […]
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister have been found dead hours after their helicopter crashed in fog, leaving the Islamic Republic without two key leaders as extraordinary tensions grip the wider Middle East. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in the Shiite theocracy, quickly named a little-known vice […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash aboard a US-made Bell 212, according to reports. The helicopter was between 40 and 50 years of age, experts told Reuters, based on available data. US sanctions may have prevented Iran from adequately maintaining the helicopter, one analyst said. The helicopter that crashed on Sunday with Iran’s […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — The death of Iran’s president is unlikely to lead to any immediate changes in Iran’s ruling system or to its overarching policies, which are decided by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash Sunday, was seen as a prime candidate to succeed the 85-year-old supreme […]
The Iranian government says that all nine people killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash have now been identified. Despite severe burns, the identities of all occupants were established on Monday, a high-ranking government representative told the Iranian news agency Tasnim. Their bodies have since been transferred to Tabriz, the capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State […]
icon Semafor Signals Supported by Microsoft logo Insights from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Iran International, and Al-Monitor Arrow Down Title icon The News Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in mountains near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. He was 63. Raisi was traveling with the Iranian foreign minister, who has also […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and several other officials have been found dead, hours after their helicopter crashed in a mountainous region of the country’s north-west, state media reported. The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which 63-year-old Mr Raisi, under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali […]
The helicopter crash that killed Iran’s President and foreign minister has sent shockwaves throughout the region. Iranian state media said President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others were found dead at the site after a search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s north-west. Here is what we know so far. Mr […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-liner close to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who confronted the West while also overseeing indirect talks with the U.S. over the country’s nuclear program, died in the helicopter crash that also killed the country’s president, state media reported Monday. He was 60. […]
Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, has been killed in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of north-western Iran, the country’s state media has said. He was travelling with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and several others. A large search and rescue operation to try and locate the aircraft was launched on Sunday – with Russia and […]