The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, is at present lacking after his helicopter crashed this Sunday, Could 19, in a difficult-to-access space within the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan.
In accordance with native media, the president was coming back from a visit to Azerbaijan together with the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Hossein Amirabdollahian, the native governor, Malek Rahmati, and different officers.
The incident occurred close to Jolfa, a metropolis bordering Azerbaijan, positioned about 600 kilometers northwest of Tehran, and was allegedly as a result of unhealthy climate circumstances.
A few of the reviews are contradictory, since state media don’t seek advice from what occurred as an accident, whereas others affirm that the lives of the president and different officers may very well be in peril.
The Minister of the Inside, Ahmad Vahidi, referred to what occurred as a “pressured touchdown,” which was as a result of heavy fog that was skilled within the space.
“The esteemed president and firm had been again on board some helicopters and one in every of these ships was pressured to make a pressured touchdown as a result of unhealthy climate and fog,” he indicated on State Tv.
Dozens of rescue groups, together with eight educated canine, have been despatched to the estimated space of the autumn, within the hope of discovering the president and different Iranian officers, nevertheless, heavy fog makes the search troublesome.
One other helicopter was to be a part of these search and rescue efforts, however along with the fog, the realm skilled heavy rain and winds that prevented the plane from approaching.
Pictures from the rescue staff had been shared on native tv, and present a number of individuals strolling by way of the mountainous space, whereas thick fog significantly reduces visibility within the space.
The supreme chief of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke out on the matter, asking the residents of Iran to hope for the well-being of the president and those that accompany him.
“We hope that the benevolent God will return our expensive and honorable president and everybody with him to the arms of the individuals. Everybody ought to pray for the well being of those public servants. The individuals of Iran shouldn’t be anxious or apprehensive,” he declared in an official assertion.
Raisi was in Azerbaijan to inaugurate a dam with the native president, Ilham Aliyev. This go to occurred regardless of the frosty relations between the 2 nations.
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