{"id":54129,"date":"2024-05-19T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/helicopter-carrying-irans-president-has-crashed-state-media-reports-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:42:47","slug":"helicopter-carrying-irans-president-has-crashed-state-media-reports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/helicopter-carrying-irans-president-has-crashed-state-media-reports-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter Carrying Iran\u2019s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/images\/icons\/defaultPromoCrop.png?resize=1200,630&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Helicopter Carrying Iran\u2019s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports\" title=\"Helicopter Carrying Iran\u2019s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, according to Iran\u2019s state media and the country\u2019s mission to the United Nations, but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The helicopter was also carrying Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iran\u2019s foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The state news agency IRNA reported that an enormous search operation involving 16 teams was underway to locate the helicopter. Inclement weather, the reports said, was hampering the effort. The teams had yet to locate the crash site after almost five hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">State media has yet to report on casualties or confirm the whereabouts or condition of the president. The cause of the crash is also unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGiven the complexities of the region, connection has been difficult, and we are hoping that the rescue teams reach the helicopter and can give us more information,\u201d Ahmad Vahidi, Iran\u2019s interior minister, told state television.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Raisi was on an official visit to the province of Eastern Azerbaijan, a mountainous region in northwestern Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A delegation of ministers traveled with him in a convoy of three helicopters, state media reported, adding that the two other aircraft had reached their destinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to the president and the foreign minister, the governor of the province was also in the helicopter, which crashed in an area called Varzaghan, state media reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Iran\u2019s law stipulates that if the president dies, power is transferred to the first vice president and an election must be called within six months. The first vice president is Mohammad Mokhber, a conservative politician.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/19\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-helicopter-crash.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, according to Iran\u2019s state media and the country\u2019s mission to the United Nations, but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog. The helicopter was also carrying Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iran\u2019s foreign minister. The state news agency IRNA reported that an enormous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/images\/icons\/defaultPromoCrop.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,32371,3984,21116,3200,2627,1905,2480],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54131,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54129\/revisions\/54131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}