Irani president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister dead in helicopter crash, says state media

Ebrahim Raisi and Hossein Amir-abdollahian dead after helicopter went down in mountains close to Azerbaijan border

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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash in foggy weather in the mountains near the border with Azerbaijan, Iranian state media has reported. Foreign minister Hossein Amir-abdollahian was among those killed.

With Raisi and Amir-abdollahian in Sunday’s fatal crash were the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run IRNA news agency reported early on Monday.