Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi dead: Tyrant dubbed ‘The Butcher’ dies in helicopter crash.
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi has been found dead at the site of a horror helicopter crash.
The brutish president, 63, was among several discovered on Monday following a gruelling overnight search in blizzard conditions.
Tyrannical Raisi, dubbed "The Butcher", was yesterday travelling in a convoy of three helicopters in Iran's East Azerbaijan province when his own suffered a "hard landing".
Eerie footage showed Raisi sitting in a helicopter and staring out a window moments before the crash.
The president's body was located after an hourslong search through the fog in the mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media and officials reported on Monday.
Rescuers recover bodies at the site of the helicopter crashForeign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was also found dead in the charred wreckage of the helicopter, said by state news agency IRNA to have been a US-made Bell 212 helicopter.
No immediate cause for the crash was provided by officials, but state TV reported the helicopter had slammed into a mountain peak.
The crash site of the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi is seen in East Azerbaijan provinc.Iran's former foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, blamed the US for the crash - without providing any evidence for the claims.
An Israeli official told Reuters: "It wasn't us," as Palestinian militant group Hamas expressed sympathy to the Iranian people for "this immense loss".
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group and the Houthi rebels in Yemen issued statements praising Raisi and mourning his death.
So sad,R.I.P
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