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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Officially Confirmed Dead In Helicopter Crash: Deputy President | TR Daily News

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Officially Confirmed Dead In Helicopter Crash: Deputy President | TR Daily News

Tehran on Monday confirmed the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and different officers in a helicopter crash within the nation’s northwestern province.

Iranian Deputy President for Executive Affairs Mohsen Mansouri mentioned in a press release on his X that every one on board, together with the president, overseas minister, accompanying delegation, and helicopter crew, died.

Earlier, Iranian state media additionally confirmed the deaths of all of the president and all on board the helicopter that crashed in a mountainous space of East Azerbaijan Province on Sunday afternoon.

The helicopter was additionally carrying Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, East Azerbaijan Province Governor Malik Rahmeti, and Tabriz Province Imam Ayatollah Ali Hashim.

Political journey of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

Known as a jurist and spiritual determine, the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was born on December 14, 1960, in Mashhad. Following the 1979 revolution, he started his profession as a prosecutor in 1981.

Rising swiftly in his place, Raisi grew to become Deputy Prosecutor General of Tehran on the younger age of 25.

Raisi was a part of a 4-member committee that, beneath the instruction of Iran’s revolutionary chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued the loss of life sentences for regime opponents imprisoned in 1988.

After Khomeini’s loss of life and through Ali Khamenei’s tenure, Raisi quickly climbed the ranks in state places of work. He served as Tehran’s prosecutor basic from 1989 to 1994.

In 1994, Raisi was appointed as the pinnacle of the State Inspectorate Organization, a place he held for 10 years.

In 2004, Raisi was appointed as the primary deputy chief of the judiciary. He later grew to become Iran’s lawyer basic in 2014 and was appointed as the pinnacle of the Imam Reza Shrine and Foundation in Mashhad by Khamenei in 2016.

Raisi additionally ran as a candidate within the presidential elections held on May 19, 2017, however misplaced to the then-incumbent President Hassan Rouhani.

Following the dismissal of Ayatollah Amoli Larijani from the judiciary chief place and his appointment as the pinnacle of the Expediency Discernment Council by Khamenei, Raisi assumed the vacant place of judiciary chief in March 2019.

In the presidential elections held on June 18, 2021, Raisi received by a big margin, securing 62% of the votes, thus changing into Iran’s eighth president.

Earlier on Monday, President Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and their companions had been declared useless after their helicopter crashed in northwestern Iran’s East Azerbaijan province on Sunday afternoon.

Source: www.nationalturk.com