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⚡️ Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash, Iran's Mehr News Agency reports Subscribe to @SputnikInt
All those accompanying Iran's president died in a helicopter crash, Mehr news agency reports:
◾️ Hosein Amir Abdollahian, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs (on the photo);
◾️ Malik Rahmati, Governor of the Iranian Province of East Azerbaijan;
◾️ Mohammad Ali al-Hashem, Imam of the city of Tabriz.
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◾️ Hosein Amir Abdollahian, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs (on the photo);
◾️ Malik Rahmati, Governor of the Iranian Province of East Azerbaijan;
◾️ Mohammad Ali al-Hashem, Imam of the city of Tabriz.
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Gaza is facing ‘apocalyptic’ famine
The UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths, told the AFP that “apocalyptic” famine is coming to Gaza.
Israel has repeatedly claimed to be doing all it can to facilitate humanitarian aid to Gaza but aid organizations have repeatedly said they have been hampered by Israeli authorities.
For months, Israeli settlers have blocked aid going into Gaza, oftentimes as Israeli police and military forces stand by. Those incidents reached a fevered pitch last week with several violent incidents. On Friday, Israelis attacked a commercial truck drive in Kochav Hashahar, an Israeli West Bank settlement that is considered illegal under international law. The Israelis reportedly attacked the driver, injuring him. Three IDF officers who arrived to treat the driver were also attacked and reportedly suffered minor injuries.
At other incidents of Israelis blocking or destroying aid, the police and military can be seen standing by.
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The UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths, told the AFP that “apocalyptic” famine is coming to Gaza.
“If fuel runs out, aid doesn’t get to the people where they need it. That famine, which we have talked about for so long, and which is looming, will not be looming anymore. It will be present,” Griffiths said, adding that “and I think our worry, as citizens of the international community, is that the consequence is going to be really, really hard. Hard, difficult and apocalyptic.”
Israel has repeatedly claimed to be doing all it can to facilitate humanitarian aid to Gaza but aid organizations have repeatedly said they have been hampered by Israeli authorities.
For months, Israeli settlers have blocked aid going into Gaza, oftentimes as Israeli police and military forces stand by. Those incidents reached a fevered pitch last week with several violent incidents. On Friday, Israelis attacked a commercial truck drive in Kochav Hashahar, an Israeli West Bank settlement that is considered illegal under international law. The Israelis reportedly attacked the driver, injuring him. Three IDF officers who arrived to treat the driver were also attacked and reportedly suffered minor injuries.
At other incidents of Israelis blocking or destroying aid, the police and military can be seen standing by.
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⚡️ Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash, Iran's Mehr News Agency reports Subscribe to @SputnikInt
In the event of the president's death, powers are transferred to the first vice president with the approval of the Supreme Leader, according to Article 131 of the Iranian Constitution.
Currently Mohammad Mokhber is first vice president.
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Currently Mohammad Mokhber is first vice president.
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⚡️Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri confirmed reports of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation in a helicopter crash
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Life of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died when a helicopter carrying him and 3 others Iranian high-rank officials went down in the country's East Azerbaijan province on May 19. He was 63 years old.
Ebrahim Raisi was elected president by a general vote in 2021, at the age of 61. During his mandate, Iran reestablished diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia - without Western mediation. The country also vastly improved its ties with Russia, de-dollarized and expanded its economic ties with Russia and China. Last but not least, it was under Raisi that Iran became a full-fledged member of the BRICS+ organization.
After graduating from an Islamic school in Qom and finishing his studies in Islamic law in Shaheed Motahari university, Raisi pursued a career in the country’s judicial system, serving as deputy prosecutor of Tehran from 1985 until 1989. He was later appointed to the position of a prosecutor of Tehran.
In 1994, he became the head of Iran’s General Inspection Organization, a position he held until 2004 when he was appointed a deputy Chief Justice of Iran. From 2012 until 2021, Raisi also held the office of the prosecutor general of the country's Special Court for the Clergy.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died when a helicopter carrying him and 3 others Iranian high-rank officials went down in the country's East Azerbaijan province on May 19. He was 63 years old.
Ebrahim Raisi was elected president by a general vote in 2021, at the age of 61. During his mandate, Iran reestablished diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia - without Western mediation. The country also vastly improved its ties with Russia, de-dollarized and expanded its economic ties with Russia and China. Last but not least, it was under Raisi that Iran became a full-fledged member of the BRICS+ organization.
Raisi was born into a family Raissi of a Shiite Islamic cleric in the city of Mashhad (the second largest city in Iran) on December 14, 1960. As a young man, he was a supporter of the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 and reportedly took part in the student rebellion.
After graduating from an Islamic school in Qom and finishing his studies in Islamic law in Shaheed Motahari university, Raisi pursued a career in the country’s judicial system, serving as deputy prosecutor of Tehran from 1985 until 1989. He was later appointed to the position of a prosecutor of Tehran.
In 1994, he became the head of Iran’s General Inspection Organization, a position he held until 2004 when he was appointed a deputy Chief Justice of Iran. From 2012 until 2021, Raisi also held the office of the prosecutor general of the country's Special Court for the Clergy.
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Iranian president Raisi’s helicopter crash: what we know so far
Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri has confirmed reports of the death of the country’s President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation in a helicopter crash.
🔸 Earlier, Pir-Hossein Koulivand, head of the country’s Red Crescent Society, said there was "no sign of life" at the crash site of a helicopter that carried President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian of Iran
🔸 "President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash... unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead," an unnamed Iranian official earlier told Reuters
🔸 In addition to Raisi and Amirabdollahian, the imam of Tabriz, Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem, the head of the East Azerbaijan province, Malek Rahmati, the helicopter crew and one security officer were on board the helicopter, per the Mehr news agency
🔸 The Iranian president’s helicopter made a "hard landing" on Sunday after it got into trouble in heavy fog
🔸 The incident took place near the city of Jolfa, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran
🔸 Raisi was heading to the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, after returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on the in the Iran-Azerbaijan border area with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev
🔸 Three helicopters were in the convoy, and the two others, which carried Iranian Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian and Housing and Transportation Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash, reached destination without problems
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Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri has confirmed reports of the death of the country’s President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation in a helicopter crash.
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Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya expressed her condolences to the people of Iran over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi
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President Ebrahim Raisi's empty chair at today's emergency government meeting
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Iran president’s death may have ‘serious consequences internationally’ – professor
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian died in Sunday’s helicopter crash in the Islamic Republic’s East Azerbaijan province, Vice President Mohsen Mansouri has confirmed.
The entire nation was keeping an eagle eye on the situation after the news about the presidential helicopter’s “hard landing” was broken, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, told Sputnik.
“People are, of course, concerned - people who voted for him, of course, liked him, people who did not vote for him, don't want to see the president of a country passing away in this manner,” according to the pundit.
Reflecting on what could have caused the crash, Izadi singled out bad weather conditions, technical troubles and an act of sabotage.
President Raisi “was also liked by many outside Iran because of his support for Palestinian cause, because of his culture of resistance against American imperialism. So I think […] he will he remembered by many people outside Iran,” Izadi concluded.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian died in Sunday’s helicopter crash in the Islamic Republic’s East Azerbaijan province, Vice President Mohsen Mansouri has confirmed.
The entire nation was keeping an eagle eye on the situation after the news about the presidential helicopter’s “hard landing” was broken, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, told Sputnik.
“Last night I was going to television stations and on my way to the stations, and coming back home, I was seeing people in different squares gathering, praying for him,” Izadi said.
“People are, of course, concerned - people who voted for him, of course, liked him, people who did not vote for him, don't want to see the president of a country passing away in this manner,” according to the pundit.
Reflecting on what could have caused the crash, Izadi singled out bad weather conditions, technical troubles and an act of sabotage.
“It could be the weather - the weather was very bad yesterday in that region, it could be a malfunction of the helicopter, or it could be sabotage. If it's sabotage, then it's going to have serious consequences internationally,” the associate professor pointed out.
President Raisi “was also liked by many outside Iran because of his support for Palestinian cause, because of his culture of resistance against American imperialism. So I think […] he will he remembered by many people outside Iran,” Izadi concluded.
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Raisi's first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, will serve as Iran's president for 50 days before the new presidential election, which will be organized by a special council, according to media reports.
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Iranian President Raisi: What is his legacy?
Raisi's political course of action was friendship with neighbors and regional allied powers, but not Europe and the West.
Under Ebrahim Raisi:
🔺Iran became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO);
🔺Iran became a member of BRICS;
🔺Iran has become a major stakeholder in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU);
🔺Iran has managed to resume and strengthen diplomatic relations with a number of Arab neighbors and African countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Djibouti, Maldives;
🔺Iran made the British pay their debt: £400 million for the contract to supply Chieftain tanks, which was canceled in 1979;
🔺Iran has maximized oil production, even exceeding the sanctions level: 3.4 million barrels per day;
🔺It was under President Raisi that Iran for the first time conducted a large-scale operation against Israel - firing rockets from its territory;
🔺Russian-Iranian relations have reached a new level both in military-political cooperation and trade: trade turnover between Moscow and Tehran has grown to $4 billion; a visa-free regime for tourists has also begun to operate between the countries.
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Raisi's political course of action was friendship with neighbors and regional allied powers, but not Europe and the West.
Under Ebrahim Raisi:
🔺Iran became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO);
🔺Iran became a member of BRICS;
🔺Iran has become a major stakeholder in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU);
🔺Iran has managed to resume and strengthen diplomatic relations with a number of Arab neighbors and African countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Djibouti, Maldives;
🔺Iran made the British pay their debt: £400 million for the contract to supply Chieftain tanks, which was canceled in 1979;
🔺Iran has maximized oil production, even exceeding the sanctions level: 3.4 million barrels per day;
🔺It was under President Raisi that Iran for the first time conducted a large-scale operation against Israel - firing rockets from its territory;
🔺Russian-Iranian relations have reached a new level both in military-political cooperation and trade: trade turnover between Moscow and Tehran has grown to $4 billion; a visa-free regime for tourists has also begun to operate between the countries.
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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 Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Two IL-76 aircraft that took off to support the search operation in Iran are returning to Zhukovsky airport near Moscow, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry announced.
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Footage of transportation of a victim's body from the crash site Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The bodies of those who died in the crash of the Iranian president's helicopter will be taken to Tabriz, the search has been completed, the head of the Red Crescent said.
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Iranian news agency Tasnim publishes video of the moment of finding the wreckage of the helicopter, which had Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on board.
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Iranian President's helicopter crash comes at a delicate moment for international relations - media
The crash happened "just days after senior American and Iranian officials held talks through mediators in an attempt to smooth over the threat of a major conflict in the Middle East," the New York Times reported.
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The crash happened "just days after senior American and Iranian officials held talks through mediators in an attempt to smooth over the threat of a major conflict in the Middle East," the New York Times reported.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed his condolences over death of Iran's president:
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"[We] are overwhelmed with great pain for having to say goodbye to an exemplary person, an extraordinary leader of the world as is and will forever be our brother Ebrahim, an excellent human being, defender of the sovereignty of his people and unconditional friend of our country," he wrote on X.
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❗️Key statements of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service:
▪️The West is extremely concerned about the decline in the ratings of Ukrainian leaders, especially after the adoption of the law on mobilization.
▪️Zelensky feels the vulnerability of his positions, on the eve of the expiration of his term he is trying to get rid of the "unreliable".
▪️To this end, Zelensky launched a widespread media campaign exposing a far-fetched conspiracy by the leadership of the State Security Department of Ukraine to assassinate the head of state.
▪️Support for Zelensky has dropped to 17%, according to American and European polls, and continues to decline.
▪️The United States and its allies strongly advise Zelensky not to relax his grip on the country's population and to continue to create an atmosphere of fear.
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▪️The West is extremely concerned about the decline in the ratings of Ukrainian leaders, especially after the adoption of the law on mobilization.
▪️Zelensky feels the vulnerability of his positions, on the eve of the expiration of his term he is trying to get rid of the "unreliable".
▪️To this end, Zelensky launched a widespread media campaign exposing a far-fetched conspiracy by the leadership of the State Security Department of Ukraine to assassinate the head of state.
▪️Support for Zelensky has dropped to 17%, according to American and European polls, and continues to decline.
▪️The United States and its allies strongly advise Zelensky not to relax his grip on the country's population and to continue to create an atmosphere of fear.
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The Russian Embassy in Iran expressed condolences over the death of President Raisi
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❗️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed condolences over the deaths of Iran's president and foreign minister.
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"We will always remember these outstanding political figures as true patriots of the Islamic Republic who firmly defended the interests of their state and gave their lives in selfless service to their motherland," Lavrov said.
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