Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash, say rescue officials

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has died after the helicopter in which he was travelling crashed in a dense forest space in East Azerbaijan on Sunday, native media stories mentioned.

On Monday morning, it was introduced that every one the passengers of the crashed helicopter had been lifeless, reported Mehr information company.

Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Pirhossein Kolivand earlier in the day mentioned the spot the place the helicopter crash had been situated.

There was no signal of surviving passengers, he instructed the information company.

As many as 73 rescue groups are at the moment looking for the helicopter.

Earlier on Sunday, Ebrahim Raisi inaugurated the Qiz Qalasi and Khodaafarin dams with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

Who was Ebrahim Raisi?

In 2021, Raisi was elected because the president on the second try.

The 63-year-old politician was thought to be a possible successor to the nation’s supreme chief Ayatollah Khamenei.

Raisi, a hardline chief, made his first try to turn into the president in 2017 when he did not win the polls.

In his political profession, Raisi served in a number of positions in Iran’s judicial system, equivalent to Deputy Chief Justice (2004–2014), Attorney General (2014–2016), and Chief Justice (2019–2021).

He was additionally Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran in the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.

He was Custodian and Chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, a bonyad, from 2016 till 2019.

He was a member of Assembly of Experts from South Khorasan Province, being elected for the primary time in the 2006 election.