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⚡️ Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash, Iran's Mehr News Agency reports Subscribe to @SputnikInt
In the event of the president's death, powers are transferred to the first vice president with the approval of the Supreme Leader, according to Article 131 of the Iranian Constitution.
Currently Mohammad Mokhber is first vice president.
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Currently Mohammad Mokhber is first vice president.
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⚡️Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri confirmed reports of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation in a helicopter crash
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Iranian president Raisi’s helicopter crash: what we know so far
Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri has confirmed reports of the death of the country’s President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation in a helicopter crash.
🔸 Earlier, Pir-Hossein Koulivand, head of the country’s Red Crescent Society, said there was "no sign of life" at the crash site of a helicopter that carried President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian of Iran
🔸 "President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash... unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead," an unnamed Iranian official earlier told Reuters
🔸 In addition to Raisi and Amirabdollahian, the imam of Tabriz, Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem, the head of the East Azerbaijan province, Malek Rahmati, the helicopter crew and one security officer were on board the helicopter, per the Mehr news agency
🔸 The Iranian president’s helicopter made a "hard landing" on Sunday after it got into trouble in heavy fog
🔸 The incident took place near the city of Jolfa, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran
🔸 Raisi was heading to the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, after returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on the in the Iran-Azerbaijan border area with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev
🔸 Three helicopters were in the convoy, and the two others, which carried Iranian Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian and Housing and Transportation Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash, reached destination without problems
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Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri has confirmed reports of the death of the country’s President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation in a helicopter crash.
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Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya expressed her condolences to the people of Iran over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi
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President Ebrahim Raisi's empty chair at today's emergency government meeting
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Raisi's first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, will serve as Iran's president for 50 days before the new presidential election, which will be organized by a special council, according to media reports.
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Iranian President Raisi: What is his legacy?
Raisi's political course of action was friendship with neighbors and regional allied powers, but not Europe and the West.
Under Ebrahim Raisi:
🔺Iran became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO);
🔺Iran became a member of BRICS;
🔺Iran has become a major stakeholder in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU);
🔺Iran has managed to resume and strengthen diplomatic relations with a number of Arab neighbors and African countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Djibouti, Maldives;
🔺Iran made the British pay their debt: £400 million for the contract to supply Chieftain tanks, which was canceled in 1979;
🔺Iran has maximized oil production, even exceeding the sanctions level: 3.4 million barrels per day;
🔺It was under President Raisi that Iran for the first time conducted a large-scale operation against Israel - firing rockets from its territory;
🔺Russian-Iranian relations have reached a new level both in military-political cooperation and trade: trade turnover between Moscow and Tehran has grown to $4 billion; a visa-free regime for tourists has also begun to operate between the countries.
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Raisi's political course of action was friendship with neighbors and regional allied powers, but not Europe and the West.
Under Ebrahim Raisi:
🔺Iran became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO);
🔺Iran became a member of BRICS;
🔺Iran has become a major stakeholder in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU);
🔺Iran has managed to resume and strengthen diplomatic relations with a number of Arab neighbors and African countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Djibouti, Maldives;
🔺Iran made the British pay their debt: £400 million for the contract to supply Chieftain tanks, which was canceled in 1979;
🔺Iran has maximized oil production, even exceeding the sanctions level: 3.4 million barrels per day;
🔺It was under President Raisi that Iran for the first time conducted a large-scale operation against Israel - firing rockets from its territory;
🔺Russian-Iranian relations have reached a new level both in military-political cooperation and trade: trade turnover between Moscow and Tehran has grown to $4 billion; a visa-free regime for tourists has also begun to operate between the countries.
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The first IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations flew from Zhukovsky airport to Tabriz to assist in the search for the missing Raisi's helicopter Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Two IL-76 aircraft that took off to support the search operation in Iran are returning to Zhukovsky airport near Moscow, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry announced.
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Footage of transportation of a victim's body from the crash site Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The bodies of those who died in the crash of the Iranian president's helicopter will be taken to Tabriz, the search has been completed, the head of the Red Crescent said.
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Iranian news agency Tasnim publishes video of the moment of finding the wreckage of the helicopter, which had Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on board.
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Iranian President's helicopter crash comes at a delicate moment for international relations - media
The crash happened "just days after senior American and Iranian officials held talks through mediators in an attempt to smooth over the threat of a major conflict in the Middle East," the New York Times reported.
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The crash happened "just days after senior American and Iranian officials held talks through mediators in an attempt to smooth over the threat of a major conflict in the Middle East," the New York Times reported.
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❗️Key statements of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service:
▪️The West is extremely concerned about the decline in the ratings of Ukrainian leaders, especially after the adoption of the law on mobilization.
▪️Zelensky feels the vulnerability of his positions, on the eve of the expiration of his term he is trying to get rid of the "unreliable".
▪️To this end, Zelensky launched a widespread media campaign exposing a far-fetched conspiracy by the leadership of the State Security Department of Ukraine to assassinate the head of state.
▪️Support for Zelensky has dropped to 17%, according to American and European polls, and continues to decline.
▪️The United States and its allies strongly advise Zelensky not to relax his grip on the country's population and to continue to create an atmosphere of fear.
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▪️The West is extremely concerned about the decline in the ratings of Ukrainian leaders, especially after the adoption of the law on mobilization.
▪️Zelensky feels the vulnerability of his positions, on the eve of the expiration of his term he is trying to get rid of the "unreliable".
▪️To this end, Zelensky launched a widespread media campaign exposing a far-fetched conspiracy by the leadership of the State Security Department of Ukraine to assassinate the head of state.
▪️Support for Zelensky has dropped to 17%, according to American and European polls, and continues to decline.
▪️The United States and its allies strongly advise Zelensky not to relax his grip on the country's population and to continue to create an atmosphere of fear.
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The Russian Embassy in Iran expressed condolences over the death of President Raisi
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