Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash
Mr. Raisi had traveled to East Azerbaijan province to inaugurate the joint Ghiz Qalasi Dam with the Republic of Azerbaijan on the border Aras River
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Foreign Minister, Mohammad Ali Al-Hashem, the Friday Prayer Leader of Tabriz, Malek Rahmati, the Governor of East Azerbaijan, along with the flight crew, the head of the security team, and another security guard were passengers on the helicopter
On the afternoon of Sunday, May 20th, one of the three helicopters in Ebrahim Raisi’s convoy met with an accident in the Jolfa region of East Azerbaijan
The helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage crashed on their way back to Tabriz
The first news of this accident was released yesterday around four in the afternoon Tehran time