{"id":2248300,"date":"2024-05-20T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-dead-after-helicopter-crash-state-media\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T00:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:10:52","slug":"iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-dead-after-helicopter-crash-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-dead-after-helicopter-crash-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"State media reports the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a 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\">28<\/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%2Firanian-president-ebrahim-raisi-dead-after-helicopter-crash-state-media%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=2248300&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>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is\u2062 presumed dead after a\u2062 helicopter crash in\u200b East Azerbaijan province. The crash site showed &#8220;no sign of life.&#8221; \u2063Raisi, 63, \u200cserved as Iran&#8217;s president\u2064 from\u200c August 2021 and was viewed\u200d as a potential successor to Ayatollah Ali\u200c Khamenei. The\u2064 incident occurred during \u2063a visit with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev \u2064to inaugurate a dam in Qiz \u2062Qalasi. Iranian President Ebrahim \u200cRaisi is believed to have \u2064died in\u200d a helicopter crash in East Azerbaijan \u2063province. The site displayed &#8220;no signs of life.&#8221; Raisi, \u2063aged\u2063 63, held the presidency since\u2062 August 2021 and\u2063 was considered a possible successor to Ayatollah Ali \u200bKhamenei. The crash happened during a visit with Azeri\u2063 President Ilham Aliyev\u200b to \u2063commission\u2063 a dam in Qiz Qalasi.  <\/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<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Iranian<\/a> President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ebrahim-raisi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> is believed to be dead after a helicopter he was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3009261\/helicopter-iran-president-hard-landing-state-tv-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>crashed<\/a> in the Islamic Republic\u2019s East Azerbaijan province. Iranian state media reported Monday morning local time that there was \u201cno sign of life\u201d at the crash site.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi, 63, had been serving as Iran\u2019s president since August 2021 and was widely seen as a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>In this photo provided by Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi takes off at the Iranian border with Azerbaijan after President Raisi and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev inaugurated dam of Qiz Qalasi, or Castel of Girl in Azeri, Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi suffered a \u201chard landing\u201d on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without elaborating. (Ali Hamed Haghdoust\/IRNA via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, East Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, Khamenei\u2019s representative to East Azerbaijan, were also on board the helicopter. Iranian state media reported on Sunday that the rotorcraft had suffered a \u201chard landing.\u201d It wasn\u2019t until hours later that any news about their statuses was given.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi was in the region meeting with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, where the two leaders announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-sign-of-life-at-crash-site-of-helicopter-carrying-iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-state-media\/\" title=\"State media reports no signs of life at the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi\">collaborative dam project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>In this photo provided by the Azerbaijan\u2019s Presidential Press Office, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, left, shakes hands with his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev during their meeting in the inauguration ceremony of dam of Qiz Qalasi, or Castel of Girl in Azeri, at the border of Iran and Azerbaijan, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a \u201chard landing\u201d on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating. (Azerbaijani Presidential Press Office via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The crash came as Raisi and the Iranian government launched a drone and missile strike on Israel last month and are closer than ever to enriching uranium to weapons grade.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was missing for hours after the crash, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/southwest-airlines-cancels-more-than-1-8k-flights\/\" title=\"Southwest Airlines cancels more than 1.8K flights\">bad weather conditions<\/a>, such as heavy fog, hampering the effort to locate it.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Vice President Mohammad Mokhber is next in line for the presidency. The Iranian constitution says that in case of the president\u2019s death or incapacity, the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a> will take over and assume the functions of the president until an election is held within a maximum period of 50 days. There are several vice presidents in Iran\u2019s government serving simultaneously, but Mokhber serves as the first one. He was appointed to the position by Raisi in August 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is feared dead following a helicopter crash in East Azerbaijan province. State media stated no signs of life at the site. 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