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Rescuers struggle to reach location of incident involving Ebrahim Raisi because of poor weather conditions.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday ...

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a hard landing on Sunday, May 19, 2024, Iranian state media reported.

A helicopter in the convoy of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in "an accident" on Sunday, state media reported, without specifying if the ...

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported.

A helicopter with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian onboard has crashed in the mountains of the Jofa region of ...

President Raisi had been in Azerbaijan for the inauguration of a dam and was returning in a convoy of aircraft.

The state-run IRNA media outlet reported that the aircraft carrying Raisi and other senior officials went down as the president returned from an event on ...

Hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi has long been seen as protégé to Iran's supreme leader and potential successor for his position within the country's ...

If Ebrahim Raisi is dead, his government will try to secure the succession as quickly and smoothly as it can.

A helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and FM crashed while travelling back from East Azerbaijan province.

DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain ...

Iran's hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi has long been seen as a protégé to Iran's supreme leader and a potential successor for his position within the ...

Ali Khamenei, the ageing, ailing supreme leader, did not have long to live; when he died, Mr Raisi would surely aim to replace him. But history has a sense of ...

Helicopter carrying Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian reportedly crashed in mountainous area amid bad weather.

Raisi – a hardline and religiously conservative politician – has deep connections in the judiciary and religious elite.

Iranian state media said the helicopter crashed Sunday in bad weather near Varzaqan in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. They said it was flying President Raisi, ...

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has potentially pinpointed the location of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi that went missing over a ...

Earlier, search teams have found the crash site of the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, state TV says. The head of Iran's Red Crescent Society has ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister died when their helicopter crashed as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian ...

Raisi had been tipped as a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Update (May 20th): This article was updated after Iranian state media confirmed Mr Raisi's death. THREE YEARS ago, when Ebrahim Raisi won the presidency in ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, state media reported Monday.

The helicopter, carrying President Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials, lost contact approximately 30 minutes into the ...

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have been confirmed dead. The Iranian President died along with seven others in a ...

The charred wreckage of the helicopter which crashed on Sunday was found early on Monday.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the foreign minister and others have been found dead after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of the ...

The death of Raisi, a hardline conservative viewed as a possible successor to the country's supreme leader, 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, comes at a ...

All passengers of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president and foreign minister lost their lives in the crash.

Foreign minister among officials and crew on board when the aircraft tumbled down, leaving no survivors.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kamenei offered condolences after the deaths of the president and foreign minister.

The hardline conservative leader died as his aircraft crashed in a mountainous terrain near the border with Azerbaijan.

State media announced the deaths after the crash site was found on Monday, after hours of searching.

Foreign minister also dead after helicopter went down in mountains close to Azerbaijan border.

The sudden death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash comes at a difficult time for a country already facing deep economic decline, ...

Raisi made an “invaluable personal contribution” to boosting neighborly relations between Tehran and Moscow, Putin said.

Once seen as a likely successor to Iran's Supreme Leader, President Ebrahim Raisi has died in office, leaving the Islamic Republic's hardline establishment ...

Under the Iranian system, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has the final say on all important matters in Iran. Khamenei is 85 and Raisi, 63, who had ...

World leaders express condolences after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi dies in a helicopter crash.

Pope Francis sends his condolences to Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, over the deaths of ...

Iran's ultraconservative president, killed in a helicopter crash, oversaw a crackdown on women's protests and was linked to extrajudicial killings in the ...

Iran's president, foreign minister and other officials have died in a helicopter crash. President Raisi was the top elected official in Iran and seen as a ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died Sunday in a helicopter crash, a shocking turn of events that immediately raised questions about the Islamic Republic's ...

President William Ruto with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during the State Visit at State House, Nairobi on July 12, 2023. Photo credit: PCS.

According to the state-run IRNA News Agency, Raisi's body alongside that of Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of East Azerbaijan province, ...