Iran helicopter accident live news: President Raisi, FM on missing aircraft
Published On 19 May
2024
- Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and foreign
minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on helicopter that suffered a “hard landing” in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, says
Iranian state media.
- Adverse weather conditions, including heavy fog,
are hampering rescue efforts and the helicopter is still missing.
- Iran’s Fars News Agency calls on Iranians to pray
for President Raisi.
40 search teams deployed to search for missing
helicopter.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports that eight ambulances
are also involved, as well as drones.
However, according to Fouad Izadi, a professor of world studies at the University of Tehran, the teams have been unable to contact those on the helicopter.
“That could be because the accident is very bad, or it could be because the area is not covered by the network. We have to wait and see,” Izadi said.
Raisi was in region after inaugurating dam with
Azerbaijani president
Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi pointed out
that Raisi had been in the border region after meeting Azerbaijan’s President
Ilham Aliyev on Saturday to inaugurate a dam.
“The president was also planning to visit a couple of
provinces in the north; he does travel a lot in the country,” Marandi told Al
Jazeera. “We have 30 provinces and every year he’s promised to travel to each
province at least once, so he’s constantly on the move.”
“It does seem that there was very bad weather; it is
very foggy. The footage from the rescue team does show that it’s very difficult
to see there. It could be that the helicopter pilot didn’t want to risk it, and
he swiftly brought down the helicopter; it could be something else.”
Who was on the missing helicopter?
- Iranian
President Ebrahim Raisi
- Iranian
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian
- East
Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati
- Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, representative
of Iranian Supreme Leader to East Azerbaijan
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