The Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi is dead in a helicopter crash while “he served and carried out his duty for the Iranian people and was a martyr”. The news of the death was confirmed by Vice President Mohsen Mansouri and also reported by state TV, also announcing the death of foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem, imam of Friday prayers in the city of Tabriz, and General Malek Rahmati, governor of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan.
Iran, state TV announces the death of President Raisi
Also the commander of the Presidential Protection Unit, Sardar Seyed Mehdi Mousavi, he died, as did some bodyguards and other members of the crew whose names have not yet been released. THE funeral will be held tomorrow in Tabriz.
Iran, death of Raisi: first images of the recovery of the body
Ali Bagheri Kani was appointed Foreign Minister of Iran. Former deputy of Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who died yesterday in a helicopter crash together with President Ebrahim Raisi, he had been chief negotiator for Tehran’s nuclear program. In the past he had also held the position of head of the Supreme Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic.
Iran, helicopter carrying President Raisi identified: images of the wreckage
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La Presse expert: Iranian foreign policy after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi “will not change”
Iranian foreign policy after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi “will not change” as “it is managed by the Supreme Leader and the Pasdaran”. This was stated to LaPresse by Luigi Toninelli, ISPI researcher and expert on Iran. “Nothing will change towards Israel, the same can be said about the strong rapprochement with Russia and China that took place under Raisi’s presidency and the relationship with the ‘proxies’ in the region such as Hezbollah, who have obtained ever greater operational freedom”, he added. Finally, as for the relationship with the USA “it depends primarily on Washington’s posture”. In this regard – Toninelli underlined – “in this case the presidential elections will be before the American ones while Tehran generally always held them after to ‘calibrate’ itself based on the outcome of what was happening in the USA”.
Meloni: I hope future leadership is committed to pacification of the region
“I am worried by default like anyone who finds themselves in my situation. When you have people’s lives on your shoulders you are always worried.” This was said by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, guest of ‘Mattino Cinque’, on Canale5, commenting on the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. “What I see in these hours is that the Iranian authorities seem to me to accredit for now the thesis of the incident and not that of any conspiracy theories, just as I currently do not see major changes in the internal structure in Iran”, he added, explaining that “clearly we are continuously in contact with our European allies and with our G7 allies because we are talking about an affair that is part of a particularly complex regional framework, I hope that the future Iranian leadership will want to commit to stabilization, to pacification of the region”. “I will see the relevant ministers and intelligence in a few minutes to take stock of the situation, and then I continue to be in contact, particularly as president of the G7, with my counterparts.”
Tomorrow the funeral in Tabriz
The funeral of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will be held tomorrow in Tabriz: this was reported by the Iranian news agency Mehr, cited by Tass.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi dies
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in yesterday’s plane crash. “The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi, had an accident while serving and carrying out his duty for the Iranian people and was a martyr,” the Iranian Mehr Agency wrote. The news of the death was confirmed by Vice President Mohsen Mansouri and also reported by state TV, also announcing the death of the Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem, imam of Friday prayers in the city of Tabriz, and General Malek Rahmati, governor of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan. The commander of the President’s Protection Unit, Sardar Seyed Mehdi Mousavi, also died, as did some bodyguards and other crew members whose names have not yet been released. The funeral will be held tomorrow in Tabriz, the Iranian Mehr news agency reports.
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