{"id":39368,"date":"2024-05-20T04:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39368"},"modified":"2024-05-20T04:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:28:15","slug":"search-continues-after-helicopter-carrying-irans-president-raisi-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39368","title":{"rendered":"Search continues after helicopter carrying Iran\u2019s president Raisi crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AL Jazeera: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian officials say extensive search operations are continuing amid poor weather conditions after a\u00a0helicopter carrying Iranian President\u00a0<\/a>Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>\u00a0suffered a \u201chard landing\u201d, state television reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian state media said\u00a0the crash<\/a>\u00a0occurred on Sunday near Jolfa in Iran\u2019s East Azerbaijan province, in the north of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a> expressed concern over the situation in a meeting with families of Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel and urged the country to pray for Raisi and others who were in the helicopter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope that God returns the honourable president and his companions to the arms of the nation,\u201d he said. He also urged Iranians not to worry and stressed that there would be \u201cno disruption\u201d in governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raisi was returning from a visit to neighbouring Azerbaijan, where he had travelled to inaugurate a dam alongside the country\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev<\/a>, when the incident took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State-linked media said three helicopters were in the Iranian president\u2019s convoy, and the two others made it back safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian<\/a>, East Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Iranian supreme leader to the province, were in the same helicopter as Raisi, state media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian and Housing and Transportation Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash were in the other helicopters that made it back safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who were with the president<\/a> inside the helicopter managed to make an emergency call, according to the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tasnim reported that the call increased hopes that the incident can be concluded \u201cwithout fatalities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AL Jazeera: Iranian officials say extensive search operations are continuing amid poor weather conditions after a\u00a0helicopter carrying Iranian President\u00a0Ebrahim Raisi\u00a0suffered a \u201chard landing\u201d, state television reported. Iranian state media said\u00a0the crash\u00a0occurred on Sunday near Jolfa in Iran\u2019s East Azerbaijan province, in the north of the country. Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed concern over the situation in a meeting with families of Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel and urged the country to pray for Raisi and others who were in the helicopter. \u201cWe hope that God returns the honourable president and his companions to the arms of the nation,\u201d he said. He… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39370,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368\/revisions\/39370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}