Ebrahim Raisi, 63, was elected president in 2021, having had a decades-long profession within the nation’s judicial system beneath his belt
Iranian state media have confirmed that President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash within the nation’s northwestern province of East Azerbaijan. His physique was discovered together with these of Overseas Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Governor of East Azerbaijan Malek Rahmati.
The pinnacle of state had traveled to the border area after becoming a member of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Saturday to inaugurate a dam, political analyst Mohammad Marandi informed Al Jazeera. Raisi had pledged to go to every of Iran’s 30 provinces at the least every year, and was thus recurrently transferring across the nation.
Reviews of a “crash touchdown” started circulating earlier on Sunday, with Iranian state media citing Inside Minister Ahmad Vahidi. In keeping with media outlet IRNA, the climate was foggy within the space the place the presidential helicopter is believed to have gone down.
Low visibility and the impassibility of the world made search operations tough, IRNA additionally wrote. Although rescue groups reportedly launched a search operation inside an hour of the incident, opposed climate circumstances hampered the method.
With Raisi’s passing, First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber is predicted to take workplace as interim chief.
A consultant of the republic’s conservative wing, Raisi, was elected again in 2021. Earlier than assuming Iran’s prime job, he had labored his manner up from Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor in Tehran within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties all the way in which to Lawyer Normal and, later, Chief Justice.
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