World Service Middle east analyst. Just take us through the series of events of what we know has happened. Essentially, over the last couple of hours, we started to hear reports that a convoy of helicopters carrying the iranian president Ebrahim Raisi had got into difficulties. Now, never difficult, different ways in which it was phrased on different outlets in the arabian media. A hard landing, a rough landing on a Crash Landing but no exact details of what that actually meant. On the reports were that it was a convoy of three helicopters travelling in the north west of the country, the province of east azerbaijan, and, she was saying, not only was the president on this particular helicopter, it began to emerge that the Foreign Minister was on the helicopter, too. Now, the two other helicopters that were in the convoy, we have had reports that they have landed safely so a huge Rescue Operation has been launched, she was saying a new introduction there, this been hampered by the thick
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What do we know . Welcome away caettin what do we know . Welcome away getting information what do we know . Welcome away getting information from what do we know . Welcome away getting information from various l getting information from various iranians sources and other News Agencies that provide pretty good understanding of what happens in iran but isnt necessarily full confirmation. So what weve heard is the president Ebrahim Raisi was travelling in a convoy and we here this from at least one iranian source of three helicopters over East Azerbaijan and that one helicopter had to make what was described as a rough, hard landing. That helicopter has emerged over the past half an hour or so and it seems almost certainly to have had president vasey on board, not only president vasey on board, not only president raisi but also the reigning Foreign Minister on board. This is an area where is mountainous, its wooded and we are hearing from these sources that there is a particularly bad Wea
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