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Raisi was a hardliner and the potential successor to <\/strong>Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The charred wreckage of the helicopter, which crashed on Sunday carrying Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and six other passengers and crew, was found early on Monday<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The crash was blamed on poor weather condition in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A senior Iranian official told Reuters that the 63-year-old Iranian president, the foreign minister and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash,.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The dead also included the governor of East Azerbaijan province and a senior imam from Tabriz City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Iranian president\u2019s death was later confirmed in a statement on social media by Vice President Mohsen Mansouri and on state television.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n IRNA news agency reported said that First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber would take over as interim president.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I announce five days of public mourning and offer my condolences to the dear people of Iran,” Khamenei said in a statement.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani was appointed as acting foreign minister following the death of Amirabdollahian, IRNA said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n State media reported that images from the site showed the U.S.-made Bell 212 helicopter slammed into a mountain peak.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Footage from Iranian state television showed wreckage scattered on a foggy hillside while separate images from IRNA showed Red Crescent workers carrying a covered body on a stretcher.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Raisi and his companions came from an official visit to the border with Azerbaijan in Iran’s northwest when they met their tragic death.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday was killed in a helicopter crash in the mountains near the Azerbaijan border. Raisi was a hardliner and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/crash-site.jpg\")
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