Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi feared dead in helicopter crash

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi feared ***** in helicopter ******

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a meeting with the cabinet in Tehran, Iran, October 8, 2023.

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is feared to have ***** in a helicopter ****** along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian,

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Monday.

Iranian state television reported there was “no sign of life” at the ****** site of the helicopter that carried Raisi, Amirabdollahian, and others.

“All the passengers of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president and foreign minister were martyred,” semi-official

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. There has not been any official confirmation about the president’s ******.

Drone footage published on 

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 showed the chopper’s wreckage on a steep hillside.

“The consequences of this are probably going to be rather contained,” Ali Ahmadi, executive fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”

President Raisi was a fairly marginal figure in national security decision, said Ahmadi, adding that Iranian foreign policy is principally governed by the Office of the Supreme Leader and the Iranian military. “The overall outline of Iranian foreign policy is not likely to change significantly.”

Raisi was returning after inaugurating a dam on Iran’s common border with the Azerbaijan Republic, when his helicopter crashed upon landing in northern Iran’s Varzaqan region on Sunday evening local time, according to

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East Azerbaijan’s governor, Malik Rahmati, and Raisi’s security detail were also in the helicopter.

The president’s convoy included three helicopters, two of which landed safely,

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Communication with Raisi’s chopper was cut off about half an hour into the flight,

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. Raisi was travelling to Tabriz city to launch an oil project.

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had hampered search and rescue operations, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps’ chief Pirhossein Koulivand, reportedly said.

Turkey and

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had sent aircraft to help with the search operations.

Raisi, 63, a hardline, ************* politician was elected president in 2021 after failing to get into the office in 2017.

An established political heavyweight, he was seen as a contender to

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. As president, he cracked down on dissent at home.

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