Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province.
A helicopter carrying Iran ian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a 'hard landing' on Sunday, Iran ian state media reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in Iran 's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers northwest of the Iran ian capital, Tehran.
news agency reported. One local government official used the word 'crash' to describe the incident, but he acknowledged to an Iranian newspaper that he had yet to reach the site himself. Neither nor state TV offered any information on Raisi's condition. Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather conditions. There had been heavy rain and fog reported with some wind.
called the area a 'forest.' Raisi had been in Azerbaijan early Sunday to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev. The dam is the third one that the two nations built on the Aras River. The visit came despite chilly relations between the two nations, including over a gun attack on Azerbaijan's Embassy in Tehran in 2023, and Azerbaijan's diplomatic relations with Israel, which Iran's Shiite theocracy views as its main enemy in the region.
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