Helicopter carrying Iranian president and foreign minister crashes, prompting massive search

Iran President Helicopter Crash 2025 Israel. Iran President Helicopter Crash Drone Finds Exact Location Of Raisi Chopper Amid Death Fears The helicopter went down in Varzeqan region north of Tabriz, state news agency IRNA reported, as Raisi returned from an official visit to the border with Azerbaijan in Iran's northwest Raisi, 63, was elected president in 2021, and since taking office has ordered a tightening of morality laws, overseen a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, and pushed hard in nuclear talks with world.

as Iran under Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel last month and has enriched uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade. Footage released by the Iranian Red Crescent shows rescuers recovering bodies at the site of President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash near Varzaqan, Iran, May 20, 2024.

May 19, 2024 helicopter crash involving Iranian president CNN

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An official investigation into the helicopter crash in May that killed Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and seven other people found it was caused by challenging climatic and atmospheric conditions, Iranian state TV reported Sunday. The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other top officials is likely to reverberate across the Middle East. A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a "hard landing" on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, with officials later saying the situation was concerning.

Iranian President's Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing. The final report of the Supreme Board of the General Staff of the Armed Forces said the main cause of the helicopter crash was the complex. FILE - People gather around a component from an intercepted ballistic missile that fell near the Dead Sea in Israel, Saturday, April 20, 2024

Helicopter carrying Iranian president and foreign minister crashes, prompting massive search. A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials apparently has crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of his country. TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather, the body investigating the case said Sunday.