Helicopter carrying Iranian president involved in ‘hard landing’ as rescuers rush to scene

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I see it is reported that contact with the 'crashed' helicopter is already made. No news on Ebrahim Raisi's condition. I don't know what helicopter is used by their national security, but those Russian/Soviet ones can take a thump with a hard landing. I guess it depends on what is being landed on. Visibility was reported to be poor.
 
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According to Al Jazeera:

Who was on the missing helicopter?​

  • Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian
  • East Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati
  • Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, representative of Iranian Supreme Leader to East Azerbaijan
 
Contradictory reports:

40 search teams deployed to search for missing helicopter​


Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports that eight ambulances are also involved, as well as drones.

However, according to Fouad Izadi, a professor of world studies at the University of Tehran, the teams have been unable to contact those on the helicopter.

“That could be because the accident is very bad, or it could be because the area is not covered by the network. We have to wait and see,” Izadi said.

Source: Al Jazeera

A local Iranian media report had it that occupants on the grounded helicopter have made contact. Though the details were unclear in concern to their condition.
 

Ex-IDF intel. chief Hayman: It would be hard to find a next Iran president worse than Raisi​

Ex-IDF intel chief Farkash: Khamenei, not Raisi, makes policy​

In the event that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a possible helicopter crash, “it would be hard to find someone worse,” former IDF intelligence chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

In terms of the impact on the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, Hayman, who is currently the Executive Director of INSS, said, “it would have no strategic impact, just that it would be less of a headache in choosing the next president.”

He noted that the Iranian president as a rule is “an administrative political position and that there are set procedures for replacing him.”
 
Some on that helicopter had intimate relations with Hezbollah and other groups working against Israel.

In the instance there is any casualty. I am sure that they will be replaced. The supreme leader has his 'clone vats'.

It is the geopolitics which may arise which could prove to be turbulent or so to speak.
 
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