Top officials in the chopper, both in the same aircraft. That is one of the major criticisms that has been directed at the system of why having two senior officials on the same aircraft. There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered. But this also speaks to that lack of access and equipment and the ageing fleet in the Aviation Industry where civilians had, over the years, then paying the major toll for, but in some cases also, officials. But in some cases also, officials but in some cases also, officials. . , officials. An important point to make there. Officials. An important point to make there. He officials. An important point to make there. He was officials. An important point to make there. He was in i officials. An important point. To make there. He was in high demand as you would expect with this Breaking News, thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us here on bbc news. Lets take a moment review the latest coming out of iran. The State Television is re
Borzou daragahi is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an iranian journalist. He explains who Ebraham Raisi is and how he came to power. Raisi was a mid ranking cleric who is in the inner circle of the Supreme Leader and one of his close allies and, you know, he became president after all of the reformist and moderate candidates were pretty much disqualified in an election that was considered engineered and many voters stayed away from. Earlier, i spoke to trita parsi, co founder and executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for responsible macro what can we expect to hear from the regime macro what can we expect to hearfrom the regime in the coming hours and days here . I think the expectation at this point is that by in a few hours, morning time in tehran, there will be an announcement that even if they may have found the helicopter, it looks extremely unlikely that there will be any survivors. They may have survived the crash, but surviving the night in the cold is a