Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Sunday died in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran, Iranian state media reported.
The fatal crash happened about a month after Iran’s drone-and-missile attack against Israel and only weeks after the head of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy visited Iran in an attempt to reboot high-level talks with the foreign minister over the Islamic Republic’s weapons-threshold nuclear program.
The government of Turkey on Monday released what it said was suspected drone footage crash site. The Turkish footage of the suspected crash site was about 100 miles closer to the Iranian capital than initial Iranian media reports put the crash. On Sunday, state media said the helicopter went down about 434 miles from Tehran, western media including the Associated Press reported.
