Iran’s president, foreign minister dead in helicopter crash, state TV reports – National | 24CA News
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the nation’s international minister and others had been discovered useless Monday on the web site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search by means of a foggy, mountainous area of the nation’s northwest, state media reported.
State TV gave no speedy trigger for the crash Sunday in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. With Raisi had been Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and different officers, in addition to three crew members, the state-run IRNA news company reported.
Turkish authorities early Monday launched what they described as drone footage displaying what seemed to be a fireplace within the wilderness that they “suspected to be wreckage of a helicopter.” The coordinates listed within the footage put the fireplace some 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border on the facet of a steep mountain.
Footage launched by IRNA confirmed what it described because the crash web site, throughout a steep valley in a inexperienced mountain vary. Soldiers talking within the native Azeri language mentioned: “There it is, we found it.” Shortly after, state TV in an on-screen scrolling textual content mentioned: “There is no sign of life from people on board.”
Shortly after, state TV in an on-screen scrolling textual content mentioned: “There is no sign of life from people on board.” It didn’t elaborate, however the semiofficial Tasnim news company confirmed rescuers utilizing a small drone to fly over the location, with them talking amongst themselves saying the identical factor.
Iran’s supreme chief has appointed First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber because the nation’s performing president.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the announcement in a condolence message he shared for Raisi’s demise within the crash Sunday. The helicopter was discovered Monday in northwestern Iran.
Khamenei additionally introduced 5 days of mourning within the message. Iran’s performing president has appointed the nation’s nuclear negotiator because the Foreign Ministry caretaker.
Mokhber appointed Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s nuclear negotiator, as Foreign Ministry caretaker, Cabinet spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi was quoted as saying.
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