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Funerary procession to be held for Raisi in Iran's northwest
Thousands of mourners holding portraits of Raisi gathered Monday at central Valiasr Square in the capital Tehran.
In pictures: Crash site of Raisi's helicopter
The crash incident triggered a massive search operation that was hampered by adverse weather conditions
Hasina mourns death of Iran President Raisi
Hasina conveyed her condolence in a letter to interim president of Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Mokhber
Iran's Supreme Leader approves Mokhber as interim president
Five days of national mourning have been declared by Khamenei.
Iran's Raisi: Ultraconservative president close to supreme leader
The Iranian president -- whose career started in the years after the 1979 Islamic revolution and who is close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- took power in a 2021 election that was followed by turbulent years of protests and tensions.
World leaders who died in air crashes
Following the Iranian president's death in a helicopter crash, the whole world is shocked. But throughout history, the death of presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs in aviation related accidents is not uncommon, as they frequently move about in planes and helicopters, exposing themselves to the risk of accident and sabotage
Reactions to death of Iran's president in helicopter crash
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner long seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said on Monday
Who is Mohammad Mokhber, the man set to become Iran's interim president?
Mokhber became first vice president in 2021 when Raisi was elected president
Factbox / What we know about the crashed helicopter carrying Iran's president
The civilian version of the ubiquitous Vietnam War-era UH-1N "Twin Huey," they are in wide use globally by both governments and private operators
Helicopter carrying Iran president crashes
Iran launched a large-scale search and rescue effort to scour a fog-shrouded mountain area after President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter went down yesterday in what state media described as an “accident”.
THE AMERICAN ZEROS
Bridging the gap between Iran and the West would help soften Iran's present voice against Israel through a possible political and social transformation in favour of the West.
An Iran deal ten years late
The only thing to lament about the agreement reached by Iran and the P5+1 (the UN Security Council's five permanent members – China, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States – plus Germany) in Vienna this month is that it was not signed and sealed a decade ago.
Iran's re-entry to the comity of nations
The US Congress has 60 days to review the agreement. During that time, President Obama cannot lift the sanctions.
Iran's nuclear deal
AFTER 18 months of gruelling negotiations, Iran and the P-5+1 (United States, France, Britain, China, Russia—and Germany) reached a
Why Europe Backs Obama on Iran
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems close to ordering a general mobilization of his country's military, and Republicans in the United States are preparing for a ferocious battle with President Barack Obama's administration, in the wake of the framework nuclear agreement with Iran.
The Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal
THERE'S many a slip twixt the cup and the lip,” goes the old English proverb.
Can Obama sell the nuclear deal with Iran?
THE clock is ticking in Lausanne in Switzerland where the foreign ministers of the United States of America and five other countries have been meeting their counterpart from Iran.
Iran nuclear talks: Deal can be reached says Rouhani
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says progress made in nuclear talks means a final deal could be reached