YEMEN Press Agency

Iran’s president, foreign minister killed in copter crash

TEHRAN, May 20 (YPA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were killed in the helicopter crash that occurred on Sunday, Mehr news agency reported.

According to the agency, A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed in a dense forest area in East Azarbaijan on Sunday.

The helicopter’s passengers, including Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution to East Azarbaijan province, along with several other people were martyred in the incident.

 

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