{"id":2248290,"date":"2024-05-19T23:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irans-president-and-foreign-minister-presumed-dead-in-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T23:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:38:23","slug":"irans-president-and-foreign-minister-presumed-dead-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irans-president-and-foreign-minister-presumed-dead-in-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s President and Foreign Minister Feared Dead in Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firans-president-and-foreign-minister-presumed-dead-in-helicopter-crash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2248290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Iran&#8217;s President and \u200cForeign Minister are believed\u200b to have perished in a helicopter crash during their journey in Iran&#8217;s eastern territory. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/driver-gets-appallingly-lenient-sentence-for-killing-teen-in-case-that-drew-trumps-interest\/\" title=\"Driver receives shockingly light sentence for killing teenager in case that caught Trump's attention.\">tragic \u200dincident occurred<\/a> on a Sunday. The officials were onboard when the\u2063 helicopter \u2064crashed, with the exact cause suspected to be the challenging conditions posed by dense fog in the \u200dEast Azerbaijan\u200c province. Your provided summary is concise and accurately conveys the key information about \u200bthe helicopter crash involving Iran&#8217;s President \u2063and\u200d Foreign \u200bMinister. \u2063It effectively\u2064 communicates the main details of\u200d the incident in a clear and straightforward\u2062 manner.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s president and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-to-a-bad-start-putin-schools-biden-with-one-phone-call\/\" title=\"Off to a Bad START: Putin Schools Biden with One Phone Call\">foreign minister<\/a> are presumed dead after a helicopter crash on Sunday while they were traveling in the eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-helicopters-rush-in-to-evacuate-americans-at-embassy-in-kabul-this-is-joe-bidens-saigon\/\" title=\"U.S. Helicopters Rush In To Evacuate Americans At Embassy In Kabul: \u2018This Is Joe Biden\u2019s Saigon\u2019\">helicopter carrying<\/a> President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian crashed in Iran\u2019s East Azerbaijan province after encountering extremely thick fog.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi was a hardliner who helped oversee the mass execution of thousands political prisoners in 1988 after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering it. There have been widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2021\/06\/12\/iran-has-rigged-its-election-to-favour-ebrahim-raisi-a-hardliner\">allegations<\/a> in Iran that Raisi only came to power because of a rigged election.<\/p>\n<p>Abdollahian was also a hardliner who had close ties to numerous Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), including Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, and Palestinian groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in comments aired on state TV that they were \u201con their way back aboard some helicopters and one of the helicopters was forced to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/helicopter-carrying-irans-president-suffers-a-hard-landing-state-tv-says-and-rescue-is-underway\/\" title=\"Iran's president's helicopter makes emergency landing, rescue operation in progress - state TV\">hard landing due<\/a> to the bad weather and fog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the rescue crews had a difficult time locating and reaching the crash site due to the weather conditions, the rugged terrain in the region, and the loss of light.<\/p>\n<p>The officials were returning from a trip to Azerbaijan early on Sunday where they attended an inauguration of a new dam on the Aras River with Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, after bidding a friendly farewell to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, we were profoundly troubled by the news of a helicopter carrying the top delegation crash-landing in Iran,\u201d said Aliyev. \u201cOur prayers to Allah Almighty are with President Ebrahim Raisi and the accompanying delegation. As a neighbor, friend, and brotherly country, the Republic of Azerbaijan stands ready to offer any assistance needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian are feared dead in a helicopter crash in Iran&#8217;s East Azerbaijan province. The tragic incident, caused by dense fog, occurred during their travel in the eastern region. 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