Reporting there are no signs of life seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ebrahim Raisi and others. News of ruizs death comes nearly 24 hours after the helicopter crashed. It was in a remote part of the country during dense fog, Rescue Efforts have been hampered by bad weather and pretty rough and tough terrain, and a number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. The chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down. The crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east with the war raging in gaza. And then, of course, weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel in response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compounds in damascus, so Hardliner Raisi became president in a historically uncompetitive election in 2021. Irans Supreme Leader is stressing the business of irans government will continue no matter what. Under the iranian constitution, irans first Vice Pre
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The Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, was also on board. President raisi had been travelling back from a trip to neighbouring azerbaijan. Rescue teams are looking for the aircraft in rain and thick fog. Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei has assured the country that there will be no disruption to state affairs. Heres a brief bit of what he said in his first Public Statement about the incident. Translation may god return the president to the people. I the iranian nation should rest assured they will be no disruption to the running of the country. These people in tehran gave their reaction to the crash. Translation i hope they are fighting well and we get to enjoy the news of them being well. This news is unfortunate for the government and the people. If anything happens to him it will take time to anything happens to him it will take time to replace him. And for the situation time to replace him. And for the situation to time to replace him. And for the situation to settl
Iranian analyst abbas faiz gave me his thoughts and reflections on the events of the day so far. Well, i think the scenario that they would probably find the occupants of the helicopter alive may have become somewhat unlikely. So the next scenario might be that they probably know, based on past practice, past practice of the government of the Islamic Republic, they probably know what has happened. And then, again, we have two possibilities. The first possibility is that if, for example, Ebrahim Raisi is still alive, but injured. In that case, i think they would announce the news straightaway and very quickly. But if there is another news for example, that, you know, he is not alive the past practice of the Islamic Republic has been to suppress that news, to suppress that news for quite a few days. And this happened at the time of the death of ayatollah khomeini, and they really announced it several days later. Now, why would they suppress the news . That is really a very big question a