Operation is underway in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president ebrahim raisi. The aircraft went down early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the opening of a new near the border with azure by john. At this time, raisis condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the crash shite because of the heavy fog and the bad weather russia, a close ally to iran, has announced it will send to advanced aircrafts and 50 additional Mountain Rescuers to help with those search efforts. Thats according to Iranian State news, seen as nic robertson, ies tracking the story closely, he is joining us now with the latest nick. It seems like were entering about our 13 now. Since this chopper went down, what more do you know . Yeah. And a couple of hours since we had conflicting information from the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps in East Azerbaijan province there in the very northwest of iran. They said that they re
Hi everyone. Im Jessica Gene In Washington and we begin with Breaking News, oversees a Frantic Search And Rescue operation is underway weigh in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Officials say they have now detected the exact location of the crash site after hours of struggling to find it due to extreme fog and bad weather there that crash happening early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the open putting of a new near the border with azure by john cnns Nic Robertson ies tracking all the latest developments from london and pentagon correspondent Oren Liebermann is here in washington with us with reaction from the us nic. Lets start first with you. And what were learning about this search the search has been hampered because theres dense fog and thats the reason its understood that the Helicopter Crash in the first place. Its raining. Ive been looking at video thats been posted on social media by
Carrying around resident believed to have a crash will crossing a mountainous area in heavy fog covered Iranian State media is describing the incident as a Quote Hard Landing but hello everyone took him to another hour of fox news light by arthel knebel. Seafort hello and thank you for joining us its i am eric shawn its nighttime in The Middle East still no word on the condition of a radiant president Ebrahim Raisi heard lots of conflicting reports coming from iran for the government strictly controls what information is released out of there. Right now Officials Say the dense fog as you can see, and extreme cold or complicated thee Search And Rescue efforts for the president and the Foreign Minister todays news coming in very volatile time for the region as tehran is busy becket proxy groups while she was a tax on commercial ships in the red sea. As well as u. S. Forces in the region. One top expert on iran of the foundation of defensive democracy thanks this could be welcome news for
Attack targeted at the religious gathering in mastung city. Earlier this month, at least 11 people, including a prominent muslim leader, were injured in an explosion in the same district, mastung. Live now to our correspondent saheer baloch in islamabad. This is of course an evolving situation. What do we know so far . So what we know so far is that people were congregating near the mosque to commemorate and basically celebrate the Birth Anniversary of prophet mohammed. It was when all of them congregated near the mask that them congregated near the mask that the blast went off and a lot of people say, especially the police, it is a Suicide Blast. So for the casualties have risen to 52. Police are trying to compile other proofs from the site as well. We are trying to compile other proofs from the site as well. From the site as well. We are ust seeinu from the site as well. We are ust seeing pictures i from the site as well. We are ust seeing pictures offi from the site as well. We are