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
Are having a very difficult time reaching the site Nic Robertson is tracking this story closely and joins us now with the latest. Nick. Now some 12 hours later, what do we know . Confusing and conflicting information. Jessica, from the irans Elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in Eastern Azerbaijan province right up there are northwestern iran. They said just a couple of hours ago that they had a signal from the helicopter they go out and got a Cell Phone Signal picked up from the helicopter as well that they knew where it was. But now we understand from their head of irans red crescent their equivalent of the red cross they dont know Rescue Workers do not know at this time whereabouts that the helicopter is the government and the president of the country the calling on people to pray the Supreme Leader rather calling on people to pray for the president at this time irans government, asked people to pray for their president so they did for hours, faith and the hope he survived or mountaino
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