Rescuers Found No Signs of Life at Iran Crash Site: Full Story
- President Raisi and foreign minister died in helicopter crash
- Deaths come at time of turmoil in Middle East due to Gaza war
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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, widely seen as a candidate to become the country’s next supreme leader, was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
His death, along with that of Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, was announced by state media early on Monday after rescuers spent hours trying to locate and reach the accident site in a mountainous part of north-western Iran.