As we reported earlier Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials were involved in a helicopter crash in foggy weather in the country’s mountainous northwest.
See:
BREAKING: Iranian President and Foreign Minister Missing After Helicopter Crash
Now reports indicate that the leader is dead.
BREAKING
Ebrahim Raisi, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been killed in a helicopter crash.
Raisi helped to oversee a mass execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s and as president, he escalated enforcement of the hijab law and increased repression… pic.twitter.com/dqkQks1ENS
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Raisi helped to oversee a mass execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s and as president, he escalated enforcement of the hijab law and increased repression against the…
