On May 19, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash on the border with Azerbaijan, the Iranian Mehr News Agency reports.
It is reported that Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who accompanied Raisi on the trip, also died in the crash.
In addition to them, the helicopter was carrying the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province, Malek Rahmati, the representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in the Province of East Azerbaijan, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-Hashem, and several other unnamed individuals. All of them were killed.
