DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.

The official said the lives of Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were “at risk following the helicopter crash”, which happened on the way back from a visit to the border with Azerbaijan in Iran’s northwest.

  • toiletobserverEnglish
    10•6 months ago

    Is this a different story than the other hard landing story about some leader?

      • @PloppEnglish
        11•6 months ago

        Well, a crash is a hard landing of sorts…

        • FuglyDuckEnglish
          1•6 months ago

          It’s on land. That’s a landing. Yiu didn’t specify in preflight check in that you required a safe landing.

    • @espentanEnglish
      15•6 months ago

      I’m not familiar with the story you’re referring to, but typically a hard landing doesn’t necessitate a search/rescue team. Unless it’s a very hard “landing” into the side of a mountain, for example.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•6 months ago

          Or just really difficult terrain, give that it’s foggy so you can’t simply look for smoke.

        • @SupraMarioEnglish
          1•6 months ago

          At what point does it become just a crash.

          Maybe this will help the Iranian people overthrow their oppressive theocratic government.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•6 months ago

            Doubt it, even if Khamenei was on board. Like everywhere else, there are just too many powerful people with too much to lose.