Iran President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian have been killed in a helicopter crash in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, their State House has confirmed.
Rescuers found the crash site after a search in difficult weather.
The helicopter – one of three travelling in a convoy – made a “hard landing” after it got into difficulties in heavy fog in the north of the country.
Raisi was heading to the city of Tabriz, in the North West of Iran after returning from an Iran-Azerbaijan border area.
