This is the helicopter taking off to return to iran. The other two reached their destination safely, but irans Interior Minister said on sunday that the president s aircraft had experience a hard landing and communication had been lost. Several countries have offered to help in the search, which was been hampered by bad weather as you can see from these pictures issued by the azerbaijan red crescent society. Overnight, turkey launched a drone to search for the missing helicopter. This map tracks its progress you can see where it concentrated its search. In the early hours of the morning, turkey said it had identified a source of heat, which it suspected to be the wreckage of a helicopter carrying irans president raisi. It said it had shared the coordinates with the iranian teams. Lets speak to patricia degennaro, professor of International Security at new york university. Welcome to the programme. Thank you for being with us. At this stage we dont have many details, as weve reported, s
After israel promised to respond to a drone and Missile Attack conducted by iran on Saturday Night against israel. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. Mohammed, obviously the news is developing as we sit here. From what we know at the moment, we have only heard that this is an israeli strike from two us officials, not on the record, speaking to our partner station, cbs news, and the target was isfahan. Tell us why Thatis Target was isfahan. Tell us why that is significant. That is significant. Isfahan has a nuclear that is significant. Isfahan has a Nuclear Facility, that is significant. Isfahan has a Nuclear Facility, so l that is significant. Isfahan | has a Nuclear Facility, so if has a nuclearfacility, so if this news is right, this is in retaliation from israel to the earlier attack from aranha against israel, that massive attack. From what we see of that news there is an attack on syria, an attack on iraq at the same time, so we are facing, like, a complicated attack, if tha
sort of nuclear facility in iran? . , ., , iran? certainly, anybody can aet iran? certainly, anybody can net on iran? certainly, anybody can get on the iran? certainly, anybody can get on the internet - iran? certainly, anybody can get on the internet and - iran? certainly, anybody can get on the internet and look| iran? certainly, anybody can i get on the internet and look up the isfahan. you ll see that it has been a long standing nuclear target, a long standing area of nuclear concern for both the israelis are primarily but the iea, iea in particular. i think it is generally accepted isfahan as that of ground zero, no pun intended, of the iranian nuclear programme. if you joining us on bbc news, letting you know what s going on. official iranian media are reporting explosions in several iranian cities, including isfahan. there are also reports of blasts in iraq and syria. us officials say an israeli missile has hit iran, but the iranians are downplaying the scale of what s happene
they knew the operation would go through. so i think they are probably deciding how they want to communicate and what kind of spin they want to put on this particular attack, spin they want to put on this particularattack, but spin they want to put on this particular attack, but that will be remain to be sent. both parties tend to be quiet often after an operation, only to see what their strategic possibilities can be for the next steps and also to see what the outcome and before results are and the damage that has occurred from this strike and the other operation next time. patricia degennaro, thank you forjoining us. we are reporting on the news reported to our partner cvst is from to us officials that an israeli missile has struck isfahan and they are downplaying the incident. we also have news of strikes in syria and iraq. joining me as
Alena Douhan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral, coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, has described US sanctions on Iran as unjustifiable and inhumane.