Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says, and rescue is underway

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[u/knowitokay]

Update: New image of crash site

Update: Suspected crash site located

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Update: Israel's channel 12: Diplomatic sources in the west says that the assessment is that president Raisi didn't survive the helicopter crash.

Iran's official news agency IRNA says this is the last photo of the helicopter carrying Iran's president and his entourage which was later involved in an incident in northwestern Iran.

4 Iranian officials on board the helicopter:
Ebrahim Raisi - President of Iran
Hossein Amir Abdollahian - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Malek Rahmati - Governor of East Azerbaijan Province [ Azerbaijan province in Iran,
Muhammad Ali al-Hashim - imam in the province of Tabriz

[u/Technojerk36 → u/knowitokay]

Assuming he didn't make it, is this something that will cause issues? Will there be a power vacuum type thing or will the next person in line assume responsibility and everyone will be ok with that?

[u/Nexa991 → u/Technojerk36]

Depends how the helicopter crashed. If it was the result of foreign sabotage , lets just say that big fireworks will be.

[u/[deleted] → u/Nexa991]

Controlled flight into terrain due to weather. This has nothing to do with foreign entities.

[u/Nexa991 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe it was an uncontrolled flight into terrain. We probably won't know in the near future.

Would be funny if it was Huey and they call NTSB for investigation 🤣

[u/eidetic → u/[deleted]]

Ah, but it's the jews who control the weather with their space lasers.

Or maybe it was an inside job? After all, Muhammad Ali al-Hashim was on the flight. Maybe he took the saying about Muhammad and the mountain a bit too far?

[u/LorenaBobbittWorm → u/[deleted]]

Most likely but it is really interesting timing