Iran's president has died in a helicopter crash, state media reports


Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is appeared setting his hands on his heart as a motion of regard to the swarm amid the memorial service ceremony of the casualties of a bomb blast in the city of Kerman, Iran, on Jan. 5, 2024.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's remote serve and other authorities nced dead from a helicopter crash, Iranian state media said on Monday.
The Iranian government held an crisis assembly taking after the declaration of Raisi's passing and a short time later Iran's incomparable pioneer, Ali Khamenei, named To begin with Bad habit President Mohammad Mokhber as acting president. Khamenei moreover declared five days of grieving would take put in the country.
The crash cleared out Iran without two of its most essential political figures as territorial pressures stay tall from the continuous Israel-Hamas war.Iranian state-run media declared Raisi's passing in a post on Monday, along with the passings of Outside Serve Hossein Amirabdollahian, the senator of Iran's East Azerbaijan area and other government authorities who were on board the helicopter.
No prompt cause for the crash was given, but state media discharged pictures online appearing what it called was the destruction from the helicopter the bunch was traveling in. The helicopter slammed in foggy conditions in a hilly zone in northern Iran as they returned from an occasion along Iran's border with Azerbaijan..
Earlier, IRNA detailed that the president of the Iranian Ruddy Bow Society affirmed that protect and look groups had recognized Raisi's helicopter.
Immediate worldwide response came from Iran's neighbors. Pakistan's government declared it would watch a day of grieving over the news. In Russia, President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Khamenei, Russian state media reported.Rescue groups looked heightening for the helicopter
On Sunday, Iran's Insides Serve, Ahmad Vahidi, said a "difficult landing" of the president's helicopter and said the search-and-rescue operation were underway, agreeing to IRNA.
IRNA detailed that two travelers on the flight had communicated with protect specialists. Twenty protect groups, counting rambles and pooches, had been sent to the scene, and the Iranian military had too conveyed troops to help in the protect exertion, IRNA added.The Fars News Organization posted what it said was video film of protect groups that had been dispatched to the region. Prior in the day, the Iranian government's X account posted an picture of Raisi situated following to Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, at the opening of a dam along the border between the two countries.
Raisi was chosen in 2021 and is a relative hard-liner
A previous cleric and judge, Raisi was chosen president in 2021.



When he came into office, Raisi said Iran would proceed to honor its atomic bargain with the U.S., in spite of then-President Donald Trump's choice to drag out of the assention in 2018.
Still, Raisi has been seen as more of a hard-liner than his forerunner, previous Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.
Last month, Raisi celebrated Iran's assault on Israel taking after an airstrike in Damascus that slaughtered seven individuals of the Islamic Progressive Watch Corps. Iran faulted Israel for the bombarding, but Israel never claimed duty. Israel said it and its partners capturing 99% of the rockets and rambles Iran terminated amid its retaliatory strike.
Iran's president is the head of its government, but the nation is ruled by Khamenei, its incomparable leader.
Iran's incomparable pioneer sets national arrangements and administers their usage and moreover controls the Islamic Progressive Watch Corps and police constrain, agreeing to the Committee on Remote Relations.
Iran's structure manages that if the president passes on whereas in office, the to begin with bad habit president takes over with the endorsement of the country's incomparable pioneer, Reuters detailed. A unused race must at that point be held inside 50 days.