Iran’s president involved in helicopter ‘hard landing’

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A helicopter carrying Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported.

Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 375 miles (600km) north-west of the Iranian capital, Tehran.