Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province when the helicopter was forced to land due to weather. A rescue is underway.
A helicopter carrying Iran ian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest.Raisi was traveling in Iran 's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said what it called a 'hard landing' happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers northwest of the Iran ian capital, Tehran.
news agency reported. One local government official used the word 'crash,' but others referred to either a 'hard landing' or an 'incident.'Neither nor state TV offered any information on Raisi's condition.However, hard-liners urged the public to pray for him. State TV later aired images of the faithful praying at Imam Reza Shrine in the city of Mashhad, one of Shiite Islam's holiest sites, as well as in Qom and other locations across the country. State television's main channel aired the prayers nonstop.
called the area a 'forest.'Long after the sun set, Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi acknowledged that 'we are experiencing difficult and complicated conditions' in the search.
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