How countries reacted to the crash of the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter:

🇷🇺 Russia is ready to provide all necessary assistance in the search for the missing helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

🇹🇷 "Turkiye is in close coordination with Iran and is ready to provide any assistance in the search for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter," Turkish President Erdogan stated.

🇦🇿 "We are very concerned about the news that the Iranian President's helicopter has made an emergency landing and we are ready to provide all assistance in this regard," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.

🇵🇰 "We are looking forward to good news. We pray and wish health to the honourable President and all the people of Iran," Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif said.

🇮🇳 "I deeply regret the reports of the crash of the Iranian President's helicopter. We express our solidarity with the people of Iran in these difficult times and pray for the President and his delegation," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said it was following the news with concern and stood by its sister country, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The foreign ministries of 🇶🇦 Qatar and 🇦🇲 Armenia said the countries are ready to provide all necessary support to the situation of the Iranian president's helicopter.

🇮🇶 Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid has expressed great concern over the crash of the helicopter of the Iranian president and his satellites.

"The leadership and people of Yemen support the people of Iran and its leadership in their difficult situation. We ask God to bring back Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and his comrades safely," said Mehdi Al-Mashat, head of 🇾🇪 Yemen's Supreme Political Council.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered two advanced aircraft, helicopters and 50 professional mountain rescuers to be sent to Tabriz to help in the search for Iranian leader Ibrahim Raisi's helicopter, Iranian news agency Tasnim reports, quoting Igor Levitin, Russian Presidential Advisor.

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The drone Akıncı sent by Turkiye to participate in the search for the crashed helicopter carrying the Iranian president has entered Iranian airspace, according to Flightradar24.

Akıncı's flight is the most tracked flight on the portal, with more than 30,000 people following it.

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The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has confirmed the dispatch of a group of rescuers to search for Iranian President Raisi's helicopter.

The group includes 47 specialists, high-clearance equipment, as well as a BO-105 helicopter for the search from the air. Specialists of the combined group of Ministry's "Tsentrospas" detachment and "Leader" centre are on standby.

Special equipment is being loaded at Zhukovsky airport near Moscow and preparations are under way for the flight to Iran's Tabriz.

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Vladimir Putin is closely monitoring the situation with the Iranian president's helicopter that made a hard landing, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"Necessary instructions have been given to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Russian Defence Ministry, helicopter groups for the search and rescue operation have been prepared," he said.

Peskov also specified that helicopter groups and a team of 60 rescuers have been prepared for the search and rescue operation in Iran.

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Footage of the "Tsentrospas" helicopter being loaded into the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations' IL-76 aircraft

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The IRGC confirmed that the heat source detected by the Turkish Akıncı drone is believed to be the wreckage of President Raisi's helicopter, Press TV reports.

It is noted that rescue teams are heading to the suspected crash site.

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US congressman says cutting Harvard's federal funding over protests should be ‘on the table’

Rep. Jake Achuincloss (D-MA) said during a televised interview that cutting federal funding to Harvard should be “on the table” in response to what he claims is antisemitism on the campus of the Ivy League school.

“It needs to be on the table,” Achuincloss, a Harvard graduate, said on Fox News Sunday. “Harvard and other universities have unfortunately become ransacked by antisemitism.”

To support his assertion, Achuincloss pointed to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Campus Antisemitism Report Card which gave Harvard and 12 other top schools failing grades, judging them on three main criteria: “Jewish life on campus,” “incidents on campus” and “administrative actions and policies.”

While the report noted good services for Jewish students on Harvard’s campus, it nevertheless received an F from the ADL, largely due to the protests on campus which were attended and in some cases led by Jewish organizations.

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The first IL-76 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations flew from Zhukovsky airport to Tabriz to assist in the search for the missing Raisi's helicopter

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