#newsonleo #iran Search and rescue operation underway for helicopter that carried Irainan president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and which apparently crashed in Iranian province of East Azerbaijan. 1/
#newsonleo #iran Search and rescue operation underway for helicopter that carried Irainan president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and which apparently crashed in Iranian province of East Azerbaijan. 1/
2/ Initially, there was a lot of conflicting information about the exact nature of incident and the fate of Iranian leader.
3/ Emergency meeting of Iranian national security council, which included spriritual leader Ayatoallah Khamnei, was held in Tehran.
4/ Raisi was returning from the meeting with Azerbeijani president Ilham Aliyev, held on the border between two countries.
5/ In case President Raisi is dead or unable to perform his duties, he will be replaced by Vice President Mohammad Mahbar.
6/ While air crashes involving heads of state are rare, they do happen. The last such incident happened in 2010 near Smolensk, Russia with plane carrying Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland.