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Now the president and other officials, including neurons, Foreign Minister, had attended a ceremony for the opening of a new near the border with azerbaijan rescuers face difficult Weather Conditions overnight, including cold and heavy fog as they grambling to locate the crash site iranians were urged to pray for the president and those On Board The Aircraft heres the message earlier for morons Supreme Leader my dear people, whether you are sitting here or well hear my speech later, do not worry. There will be no disruption in the countrys work so no disruptions says the Supreme Leader are Paula Hancocks has been following all these latest developments. Its seven, 30 in the morning and tehran just after paula, and you wonder, what is obviously shocking news, but what the reaction will be as they learn. The way in which both their president and theyre Foreign Minister died will follow. I think they will be vastly conflicting reactions within iran this morning as they wake up to the news of this helicopter the crash, because we know that the president s was a fairly polarizing figure. We know he did have support from the more Hardline Section of society in iran but he certainly also was not popular among, for example, the Youth Led Protests that we have seen since, since 2022. So we know that there will be a varying degree of reaction when it comes to what has happened here. So what we know at this point is the head of the Iranian Red Crescent say that there is no sign of life at the location of the Helicopter Crash, there were nine people hello, board. We know that the president Ebrahim Raisi, had just been at an inauguration of a dam project just close to the border with azerbaijan in the Eastern Azerbaijan province within iran. He had met there with the president and azerbaijan and they were in a three Helicopter Convoy heading back to either take r1 or where they would be able to disembark for another form of transport. It is a very inhospitable terrain as you could see from some of those images, Helicopter Travel really the most practical to be able to get around that area. But we also do know that Weather Conditions were bad at the time of this crash, just the fact that it took rescue teams so long to be able to access that location where they believed the helicopter went down. We know that it was extremely foggy. We had heard from rescue teams about the very Poor Visibility in the area. In fact, rescue teams themselves were unable to put helicopters into the air to try and help the Rescue Process because it was simply too dangerous to be able to do so. We know also a very mountainous area, very sparsely populated and we understand that the temperatures overnight would dipping into subzero realms and rescue seems really did struggle to try and get to the area where this crash took place monday morning, people in iran will be waking up to this news. There will be shock, there will be, as i say, very varying degrees of reaction when it comes to this figure. But a very significant crash, in de, the fact the president was on board, the top diplomat, the Foreign Minister overrun, was also on board that helicopter. We know that the governor of East Azerbaijan also one of the regions friday prayers, imams was on bored Security Pilots and crews. So a very significant event happening in iran right now, paula paula gives rise rise to so many questions, right . In terms of who was onboarding included security personnel. Obviously the pilot and crew, and why they made that decision. But to fly, we know the two other helicopters in that convoy actually landed safely one more are we learning about the conditions that they undertook this trip, given the fact that you just described really some bad weather, we had Kernel Centric Latent on earlier saying that normally that would rest with the pilot. In terms of deciding whether or not to fly hi this area itself really using a helicopter for, for vips is one of the most practical ways to transport them to to use the roads in this area would take hours. They are not good roads. And that in itself would be problematic when youre transporting it, a president and a Foreign Ministers certainly using a helicopter would be the most practical solution, but it is questionable whether or not the decision was obviously was not the right one. It appears. But whether or not that was a clear decision at the area where this helicopter took off. Now, we know that it was in an area where there was a dam project. There was an inauguration, a vip events that the president , the Foreign Ministers, and also the president Of Azerbaijan were in attendance. Now, we dont know whether the, the weather in that particular area was sensitively goods, so it was deemed acceptable to be able to take these, the president and the Foreign Minister into the air. But we do know as soon as the first reports came out, that they had lost contact with the helicopter itself, that it was impossible for rescue teams to be able to put their own helicopters into the air to try and pinpoint exactly where this plot, this aircraft went down. So that is very telling if the rescue teams themselves are unable to put the aircraft into the air. We know that turkey, for example, gave a heat drone to be able to help with this search. And thats certainly did manage to narrow down the area. Thats the rescue teams searching for, but just the fact that it took rescue teams. So long to get to that area every hour we were getting updates of the difficulties that they were encountering. The fact that the visibility was dreadful, you can see from the images and the footage of the rescue teams, just how little visibility there is. And that is on the ground as people are trying to walk, you can imagine what it would have been like in the air. So there will be some serious questions are asked as to why this helicopter was in the air in the first place, why the president and the Foreign Minister were both on the same helicopter, for example, there were three helicopters in this convoy so certainly these questions that im sure will be asked internally over the hours and days to come and paula, as you were speaking, were seeing some of those conditions on the ground extraordinary that they actually sent hundreds perhaps thousands of people hold on foot. Because as you say, they could not take to the air to really conduct that search. Paula hancocks for us as you continue to track reaction there from the middle east his depreciated are ivan watson is also chat Tracking Reaction and joins us now from hong kong and again, ive, and id imagine the shock really starting to register mr. Around the world sure. I mean, look, the announcement that no survivors were found at the iranian Presence Crash Site today. Thats really only been in the last hour. So it will take a little bit longer to hear more reaction and an official announcement coming out of the iranian government as well. But i think its very important to see the commentary thats come out from neighbors and other governments running up after the news of the crash came out because many people know about the Mortality Rates when it comes to Helicopter Crashes. First and foremost, i want to highlight the president Of Azerbaijan, ilhan elif, because he was in fact meeting facetoface with the iranian president ebrahim, right . He raisi on sunday morning. They were sidebyside, inaugurated the launch of a dam project on the border of the two countries and after news of the crash came out, olive put out a statement on x saying that after bidding a friendly farewell to the president of the Islamic Republic of iran we are profoundly troubled by news of a helicopter carrying the top Delegation Crash Landing in iran. A. He said our prayers to allow mighty are with president raisi and the delegation and that azerbaijan was offering to help out as well and other offers than poured in the Iranian Ambassador to moscow said that he had basically an Emergency Meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin at 10 00 moscow time, 10 00 p. M. On sunday. That i think highlights the importance that the russian president puts in his friendly relations. Since with iran, which has been supplying russia with shahid killer drones that have been used against, ukraine on the frontlines of that war. And russia was rushing planes and rescuers to help in the now the Rescue Effort that is now a basically a Salvage Effort at turkey, a neighbor to iran, provided a drone that was operating in those turbulent skies that my colleague Paula Hancocks was just talking about since iran couldnt get helicopters up in that terrible whether weve also had messages of support and concern come in from china, for example. And pakistan, which is interesting because in january of this year iran launched killer attacks, deadly attacks across the border into pakistan which attracted just condemnation from pakistan between those two neighbors. It gives you a sense of how prickly the relations can be in this part of the world. Weve heard that President Biden has been informed about this, but were not hearing any official reaction from the white house yet. It will be interesting to see what iran sworn enemy israel, how it will respond to this news because of course it was just last month that iran and israel were quite literally Trading Blows in a sharp escalation of the years shadow war or between these two countries. Finally, we had a message from hamas long supported by iran, expressing its concern and sympathy and solidarity with iran at this time. So it just highlights the complicated relations and the pattern of a that iran enjoys in the turbulent middle east and further abroad. Yeah, and in terms of the reaction even from countries like pakistan as one of our analysts put it as a sense of decency among muslim countries that they will continue to express that those kinds of condolences ivan stayed with me for a minute as we have our first look here at some new pictures, just come in to cnn at the site as you can see there, obviously day break, it is morning there and you can see this is the site of the crash. It looks like a staging area right now or theyve been able to get as you can see, even ambulances there and other vehicles to try and do their First Investment the games of the site. And obviously try and recover the bodies. Those are our first pictures. In fact, those are live pictures there from bees iran, which just still quite a distance away from where this crash occurred, but they are setting up that staging area to begin those recovery operations. You made such good points there in terms of the reaction, i do want to ask you what will be a very complicated reaction inside of iran, right . Because you well have certainly hardliners. Those who are very religious as well, who would have backed president and auc. And obviously the Supreme Leader. But again those who felt that he was an unsparing repressive president of iran that is responsible for, in fact, condemning many to death very polarized we heard the iranian government, the Supreme Leader of iran, no less coming to eat, calling for prayers, for raisi and his entourage. And we saw on Iranian State media scenes of people quite literally praying for him. And now that will transition to prayers of mourning. After all, were seeing that some of the anchors on Iranian State television are wearing black right now. And i think a sign of whats to come in, iran as were likely to move into a period of official morning on the other side of the political spectrum in iran, there are those who see Ebrahim Raisi as a villain and we are seeing signs on social media. Were seeing videos of people whose families suffered under the crackdown, particularly over the last two years in iran quite literally celebrating in one video, to women whose mother died in the crackdown, dancing to a turkish pop song called helicopter. Further abroad, we have members of the diaspora who are opponents of the Islamic Republic of iran, of the regime there since in place, since 1979, also celebrating this moment. And it underscores the internal divisions within this country where youve had over the past 20 years recurring up risings and Protest Movements that the authorities have crushed using at times deadly force. Ebrahim raisi himself was elected in 2021. It was historically since the foundation of the Islamic Republic of iran, the lowest Voter Turnout in any president ial so election. I believe it was in the 40th percentile. And the parliamentary elections have just a few months ago also had a low Voter Turnout in decades past, paula, i think you and i have reported on the Power Struggle between reformist and conservative camps. In iran. Experts will argue that the reformist side of The Body Politic and iran has effectively been crushed for years now. And now if there is any Power Struggle, its within different shades different Shades Of Black and gray within the hard line and conservative camp. So a big part of iranian Political Society is basically blocked out of politics. And that leaves factions, again, within the hard line and conservative side of society two, then kind of duke it out over who might become a candidate and the winner of president ial elections, which according to the iranian constitution, are to take place. Some 50 days after the death of the elected president. It is quite a fast timeline, especially given this country will be in mourning for several days. Ivan watson, thanks so much. 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