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 suffered a 'hard landing' on Sunday, Iran ian state media reported, without immediately elaborating. Some began urging the public to pray for Raisi and the others on board as rescue crews sped through a misty, rural forest where his helicopter was believed to be.Raisi was traveling in Iran 's East Azerbaijan province.
news agency reported. One local government official used the word 'crash' to describe the incident, but he acknowledged to an Iranian newspaper that he had yet to reach the site himself. Neither nor state TV offered any information on Raisi's condition.'The esteemed president and company were on their way back aboard some helicopters and one of the helicopters was forced to make a hard landing due to the bad weather and fog,' Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in comments aired on state TV. 'Various rescue teams are on their way to the region but because of the poor weather and fogginess it might take time for them to reach the helicopter.
called the area a 'forest.' Raisi had been in Azerbaijan early Sunday to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev. The dam is the third one that the two nations built on the Aras River. The visit came despite chilly relations between the two nations, including over a gun attack on Azerbaijan's Embassy in Tehran in 2023, and Azerbaijan's diplomatic relations with Israel, which Iran's Shiite theocracy views as its main enemy in the region.
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