The Minister’s Fall with the Red Crescent Helicopter
Reports indicate that the general condition of Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s Minister of Sports and Youth, is not worrying, and he survived the helicopter crash.
However, Ismail Ahmadi, the minister’s advisor and director-general of the ministerial office, was killed in this accident.
According to Mehr, Mr. Sajjadi had a short trip to Kerman and inaugurated three sports projects in Sirjan on Wednesday night: a 5,000 square meter sports hall costing 100 billion tomans, a 200 square meter shooting hall costing 1.2 billion tomans, and a specialized athletics camp costing 800 million tomans.
He was returning from Baft in Kerman province in a helicopter belonging to the Red Crescent organization.
Hamid Sajjadi was flying in a Red Crescent helicopter while, out of the 24 helicopters of this rescue organization, as Pir Hossein Kolivand, the head of the Red Crescent Society, said two months ago, 10 rescue helicopters are currently grounded due to a lack of funding for major repairs.
Mr. Sajjadi was in one of these helicopters belonging to the Red Crescent when it crashed.