Today: Tuesday, 17 September 2024 year

The Vice President of Iran confirmed the death of the President in a helicopter crash.

The Vice President of Iran confirmed the death of the President in a helicopter crash.

Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri confirmed the death of the President of the Islamic Republic, Ebrahim Raisi, as a result of a helicopter crash.

“We belong to Allah and to Him we will return,” Mansouri wrote on X (formerly Twitter), accompanying the post with a hashtag used to search for photographs of Raisi.

The text of the message is a phrase that is mentioned in the Koran and is pronounced by Muslims after the news of the death of a loved one.

The helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic Hossein Amir Abdollahian made a hard landing near the Iran-Azerbaijan border.

On the morning of May 20, the Iranian Red Crescent reported that search and rescue teams had found Raisi’s helicopter. All passengers and crew were killed.