Iran President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have been confirmed dead. The Iranian President died along with seven others in a helicopter crash that came down in bad weather in the North Western Iran, state TV says. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also killed in Sunday’s crash, along with several others The helicopter,…
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News Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s President, Is Dead at 63
Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president and a top contender to succeed the nation’s supreme leader, was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash. He was 63. A conservative Shiite Muslim cleric who had a hand in some of the most brutal crackdowns on opponents of the Islamic Republic, Mr. Raisi was a protégé of Iran’s supreme…
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News ‘No sign of life’ at crash site of helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi
There was “no sign of life” spotted Monday at the crash site of the helicopter that was carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials after it made a “hard landing” on Sunday, state TV reported. The crash site was across a steep valley and rescuers have not yet reached it,…
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News New Taiwan President Lai Ching-te Faces Big Challenges
Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, was sworn into office on Monday, facing hard choices about how to secure the island democracy’s future in turbulent times — with wars flaring abroad, rifts in the United States over American security priorities, and divisions in Taiwan over how to preserve the brittle peace with China. Mr. Lai began his…
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News Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports
The crash of a helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran could hardly have come at a more volatile time for the Islamic Republic. Sunday’s episode left the fate of Mr. Raisi — who many analysts believed was being groomed to become Iran’s next supreme leader — uncertain against a backdrop of economic misery, widespread…
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Kenya news Helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashes
A helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has been involved in an accident, state media reports. Reports say 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 Interior Minister…
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News Who is Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi?
Ebrahim Raisi, 63, a hard-line religious cleric, was elected president of Iran in 2021. In his tenure as president, he has overseen a strategy to expand his country’s regional influence — backing militant proxies across the Middle East, expediting the country’s nuclear program and bringing the country to the brink of war with Israel. But…
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News Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports
A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, according to Iran’s state media and the country’s mission to the U.N., but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog. The helicopter was also carrying Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister. The state news agency IRNA reported that an enormous search…
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News Iranian president experiences ‘rough landing’ in helicopter: Iranian media
Coming up on ‘Fox News Sunday’: May 19 ‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Shannon Bream discusses New York v. Trump trial with Trump attorney Will Scharf, Gaza aid with Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., as well as House GOPs moving to hold AG Merrick Garland in contempt. A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim…
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News Drexel University president reacts after 75 protesters descended onto campus
A group of at least 75 anti-Israel agitators staged an encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening. According to a statement by Drexel University President John Fry, 75 pro-Palestinian protesters set up an encampment on campus at the Korman Quad on Saturday evening. Fry said the individuals participated in the Philly Palestine…
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