President Raisi Died in Helicopter Crash: Iran Media 

News Desk 

Tehran: Iranian state media reported that President Ebrahim Raisi died on Monday following a helicopter crash in a mountainous region of the country.

The government has yet to officially confirm the leader’s death. Rescue teams had been searching the area since Sunday afternoon after a helicopter carrying Raisi, the foreign minister, and other officials went missing.

Early Monday, relief workers located the missing helicopter, and state TV announced the president’s death. “The servant of the Iranian nation, Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi, has achieved the highest level of martyrdom while serving the people,” state television stated.

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Mehr news agency also reported his death. State television broadcast photos of Raisi, accompanied by the recitation of the Koran in the background. Iran’s vice president for executive affairs, Mohsen Mansouri, posted a Koranic verse expressing condolences on X.