Helicopter carrying Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian reportedly crashed in mountainous area amid bad weather
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Earlier today Iran’s state-run news agency Irna published images that it said show the helicopter carrying President Raisi as it took off from near the border with Azerbaijan on Sunday.
Travelling with him were foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, Irna reported.