On Monday morning, at sunrise, rescuers discovered a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's Foreign Minister and other officials. Rescuers report that no one survived.
State media cautiously write: “No signs of life.” The President of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) confirmed that rescue and search teams have identified crashed helicopter President Ebrahim Raisi. According to IRNA, Pir Hossein Kolivand made a statement on Monday morning, saying that teams had arrived at the wreckage of the crashed helicopter. He didn't give details, but saidthat “the condition is not very good.”
“There are 73 rescue teams with modern and specialized equipment in the search area for the helicopter in the village of Taval,” he added. “When the sun rose on Monday, rescuers saw the helicopter from a distance of about 2 kilometers (1.25 miles).”
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At that time, more than 12 hours had passed since the officials and the country's president, Ebrahim Raisi, went missing. writes dw. Earlier, a Turkish drone, Bayraktar Akinci, detected a “heat source,” which could be Raisi’s crashed helicopter, in the mountains near Iran’s borders with Azerbaijan and Turkey. Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed A drone detects a heat source that is likely helicopter debris. Iranian news agencies published photographs and videos in which Raisi's helicopter was partially visible in the thicket of trees on the hillside.
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US Senator Schumer said intelligence agencies have briefed the US President that there is “no evidence of foul play” in the downing of Iranian President Raisi's helicopter. It's just an accident.
Iranian rescuers report that no one survived the helicopter crash carrying President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian. writes Air Force.
The death of Raisi and everyone else who was in the helicopter was confirmed, in particular, by the Iranian Mehr agency and an unnamed Iranian official in a conversation with Reuters. Earlier, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent, Pirhossein Kolivand, said on state television that rescuers found no signs of life at the crash site.
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