Mehr News Agency confirms the deaths of everyone on board Raisi's helicopter, including President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem
5 month agoFirst close up picture from the Raisi helicopter crash site in Iran, released by the official media
Iranian sources: All passengers of the helicopter carrying the president and foreign minister were killed
Iranian state television: There is no sign of life in the wreckage of the president's helicopter
5 month agoAccording to the coordinates provided by the Turkish drone Akanji, this is where the president's helicopter crashed
Head of the Iranian Red Crescent: We are heading to a place where rescue teams reported that the smell of fuel was emanating
Iranian Red Crescent: 46 rescue and rapid response teams participate in the search for President Raisi's helicopter
Iran's media reported that Hossein Salami, the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Guards, went to the crash site of Raisi's helicopter, and a crisis headquarters meeting was held with him, a group of ministers and Raisi's deputy at Mes Songon headquarters.
Türkiye sending night vision search and rescue helicopter, 32 search, rescue mountaineers, 6 vehicles to assist Iran: Türkiye's Disaster Management Agency
European Commission: We have activated a satellite mapping service to help search for a key aircraft location
Turkish Foreign Ministry: We are watching with sadness the Iranian President's helicopter accident
Khamenei: Iranians should not be worried and there will be no interruption in state affairs
Iranian Chief of Staff: The Armed Forces are investigating the helicopter crash
White House: POTUS has been briefed on Iran
Intensive security deployment in several areas of the Iranian capital, Tehran
5 month agoGovernment spokesman: According to the coordinates of the accident site and weather conditions, there is "no" new news until this moment
5 month agoIranian Red Crescent Spokesperson: “The weather condition at the site of the accident is so bad that three of our rescue workers have now gone missing.”
Tehran Times: The Supreme National Security Council holds an emergency session headed by Khamenei
Yemeni Defense Minister: The arrival of ships from Iran to the port of Hodeidah without inspection confirms the continued flow of weapons to the Houthi militia
Iranian media: The governor of East Azerbaijan was on board the missing helicopter
Tasnim Agency: The area where the helicopter accompanying a major convoy crashed was close to the city of Julfa, located on the border with Azerbaijan.
According to the report of Fars reporter from Varzghan, rescue teams are trying to find the helicopter carrying the president. The search continues around Sangun copper mine. The fog in the area is very thick and the horizontal visibility is less than 5 meters. It is also raining in the area. This has slowed down the operation
Details of the accident for the helicopter carrying the president from the words of the interior minister. Vahidi: The rescue teams have not yet reached the scene of the accident. Due to the weather and fog, the helicopter carrying the president had to make a hard landing.
Head of the Red Crescent Organization: Rescue teams have been sent to the scene of the helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi
The Iranian Foreign Minister was accompanied by Raisi on the plane that was involved in an accident
A helicopter carrying the Iranian president and his foreign minister was involved in an accident in Warzgan, East Azerbaijan province
Tasnim Agency: President Ebrahim Raisi's convoy was traveling northwest of Iran before one of the helicopters was involved in an accident
5 month agoIran's president: We will turn the border between Iran and Azerbaijan into a border of hope and opportunity.The cooperation between the two countries should lead to regional and international cooperation, and this is the will of the officials of the two countries
6 month agoPakistan's Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch: Pakistan does not have any comments on agreement between Iran and India on Chabahar Port since this issue does not pertain to Pakistan
6 month agoIran's Ambassador to India Iraj Elahi reposted Indian analyst Brahma Chellaney's tweet, saying that "India's 10-year agreement with Iran to develop its strategic Chabahar port would help counterbalance China's growing role in the Pakistani port of Gwadar".
