Newspointer May 20, 2024
By Negar Mahmoodi, Artemis Moshtaghian, Tamara Qiblawi, Sophie Tanno and Helen Regan, CNN
Iran’s president and foreign minister are presumed dead after state media outlets reported that “no survivors” were found at the crash site of a helicopter carrying the two men and seven others.

The helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian ran into trouble amid heavy fog while returning from a trip to the Iran-Azerbaijan border, Iranian officials said Sunday.
No official announcement of their deaths has yet been made.
Drone footage of the wreckage taken by the Red Crescent and carried on state media FARS News Agency showed the crash site on a steep, wooded hillside in northern Iran, with little remaining of the helicopter beyond a blue and white tail.

Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of the Iranian Red Crescent, said there are no signs of life of those traveling on board the helicopter, according to Iranian state news IRIB.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks in New York City during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on April 18, 2024.
Reuters news agency also cited an unnamed Iranian official as saying all passengers are feared dead.
