Strohmier live in new york, Iranian State media is 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 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. Rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. A number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. That chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down and this crash does come at a fraught moment in the middle east with the War Raging In Gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel. In response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, Hardliner Raisi became president in an 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 Presi
Reporting there are no signs of life. Seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ibrahim Raisi and others. News of reeses death comes nearly 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. Rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. 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 War Raging In Gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel that was in response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, 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. In irans first Vice President takes over if the president dies
are and correct this disservice. finally, because i see the pattern. you re not sure. but overprescribing of drugs is a serious charges. we have an opioids problem in the country over prescriptions. now the president s doctor has been accused of this. each of these allegations are profoundly serious. and they are explosive. i see no path forward virtually no, path forward to this nomination right now because of how serious these allegations are. kristin, back to you. i really count on you to get the straight scoop on this white house. as always, every night. how do we evaluate the president s short of predilection for picking it pals or family members, jared kushner becomes our mideast expert or his daughter travels to china and represents our country there. he seems to have a very small circle of people he knows. and would therefore give these responsibilities to rather than
martin. made a series of shock moves for size lee at this time was he trying to fend off something or somebody i think is preparing to take the throne or the crowd and the more it s not really a crown as though they were able but i think he will become he wants to become the next king very soon and yes he needs to go against rivals but you also have to bear in mind that he is probably the first truly populist ruler de facto ruler of saudi arabia somebody who tries to rally the support of the street of citizens against the couple of thousand princes and his family and us calling it the shock movement or shock move i think of that is true but if you want to change something in such a monarchy i think probably the shock move is the right thing to do i don t want to justify it but i think this helps us understand the ways the means and the instruments he applies. mideast expert in chief editor of current affairs magazines and it s thank you i thank you. and i want to update you now on the
resigned. and all of these events are taking place against a backdrop of growing saudi arabia and saudi and iranian tensions that has everybody on edge daniel agger is a mideast expert and chief editor of current affairs magazine xenophon a very good evening to you daniel so this scene for us please if you will where why this hardline now against lebanon why is saudi bahrain kuwait and the u.a.e. taking on beirut. i think because they can and because they think it s an appropriate moment in particular this accounts for a moment in some on the powerful crown prince of saudi arabia he feels that this is this moment he has the backing of the united states because there is no real u.s. presence and no yet real u.s. policy on the middle east and i think it s for him i understand that this is an opportune moment for him to try his luck but with regard to the other gulf states that are of course very close to saudi arabia and coordinate the policy in particular but in the united arab emirates