{"id":287912,"date":"2024-05-20T07:10:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287912"},"modified":"2024-05-21T06:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T06:21:54","slug":"pres-raeisi-fm-amir-abdollahian-companions-die-in-chopper-crash-after-night-long-search-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287912","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Raeisi, FM Amir-Abdollahian, companions die in chopper crash after night-long search op."},"content":{"rendered":"

President Raeisi<\/p>\n

Press TV \u2013 May 20, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian was also killed in the helicopter crash. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have died in a helicopter crash in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The helicopter carrying President Raeisi and his accompanying delegation crashed on Sunday in the Dizmar forest, nestled between the cities of Varzaqan and Jolfa in East Azarbaijan Province.<\/p>\n

It was transporting Raeisi, Amir-Abdollahian, East Azarbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati, Friday Prayers leader of the city of Tabriz Seyyed Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem and a member of the president\u2019s bodyguard team Mahdi Mousavi. The helicopter\u2019s pilot, co-pilot and crew were also among others on board the chopper.<\/p>\n

President Raeisi and his accompanying delegation were returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on the Aras River with Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev.<\/p>\n

Following the announcement of the martyrdom of Raeisi and his team, the cabinet held an emergency session headed by Vice President Mohammad Mokhber.<\/p>\n

Iran government says will operate ‘without disruption’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In a statement, the cabinet extended condolences to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and the Iranian nation over the martyrdom of President Raeisi and his companions.<\/p>\n

It assured the \u201cloyal, appreciative and beloved\u201d Iranian nation that President Raeisi\u2019s path will continue and not even a slight disruption will be caused in administrating the country\u2019s affairs.<\/p>\n

Ayatollah Khamenei on Sunday said the nation should not be worried or anxious, because \u201cthere will be no disruption to the work of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

In televised remarks in the wee hours of Monday morning, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), said rescue teams have located the wreckage of the helicopter.<\/p>\n

He later told the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) that the search operation for the bodies of the victims has finished and the bodies are being transferred to the provincial capital of Tabriz.<\/p>\n

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Although both Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian were killed in the helicopter crash this won\u2019t necessarily change anything. That\u2019s because the ultimate authority in the country still resides with the Ayatollah Khamenei, who is Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":269635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287916,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287912\/revisions\/287916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}