After the Iranian president’s helicopter went missing for hours, a Turkish drone was the first to find the charred wreckage among the trees in the mountainous dense forest of Tabriz.
The Arab media has claimed that President Ibrahim Raisi’s helicopter lost contact with the other two helicopters while returning from Azerbaijan, some distance from the Iranian city of Tabriz.
t this point the weather was very bad and the fog was heavy and the rain continued and then the helicopter lost contact and the concern increased.
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Revolutionary Guards, Red Crescent and other rescue teams went to the scene to search for the helicopter, but none could find success due to bad weather. Hopes of finding the helicopter were fading.
Foreign teams participated in this search operation. USA, Canada etc. also used their network, but the Turkish drone was the first to send the picture of the crime scene.
The photo caused an uproar in Iran as the helicopter was completely burned to the ground and it looked like no one was expected to be found alive.
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Red Crescent spokesperson said that the picture shows that the situation there is not good.
Along with the Iranian President, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir Abdullahian, Governor of East Azerbaijan Province Malik Rahmati and Spokesman of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Mohammad Ali Al Hashem were present in this helicopter.
Apart from this, the chief of the Iranian president’s guard team, Syed Mehdi Yousefi, was also on board the helicopter, while the crew members included pilot Colonel Syed Tahir Mustafavi, pilot Colonel Mohsen Daryanosh and flight technician Major Behrouzish.
The Iranian Interior Minister has confirmed the death of all persons in the accident.
