There’s breaking news this evening that a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was forced to make a “hard landing” in a mountainous area close to the Iranian-Azerbaijani border. The area is currently shrouded in fog, which is hampering rescue efforts. At the time of writing, neither the helicopter nor any of its occupants have been found – at least, they haven’t been reported as found by the Iranian media.
You can read the BBC’s live blog on the incident here, the Telegraph’s here, the Times’s here and the Guardian’s here. More news as we get it.
Stop Press: A news outfit called the EuroPost Agency is reporting that both are dead.
Stop Press 2: Raisi’s death has now been confirmed – all nine occupants of the helicopter died. The Telegraph has a short obit and the late Iranian President sounds like a thoroughly bad egg. A new Presidential election will be held in 50 days, although if it was anything like the last one in which Raisi was elected it will be rigged by the regime.
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