The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, has instructed a high-ranking delegation to investigate the helicopter crash case in which the President died Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage in tow. The delegation led by Brigadier Ali Abdollahi was sent to the accident site and investigations have already begun. The results of the investigations will be released later, once the mission is completed.
The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Raisi lost his life occurred due to “a technical failure“writes the Iranian state agency IRNA.
President Raisi was returning from a ceremony to open a dam on the border between Iran and Azerbaijan when his helicopter crashed in Varzaqan, northwestern Iran, on Sunday 19 May. Also on board the helicopter were Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and a number of senior provincial officials: none survived the accident.
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