Iranian President has died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country in poor weather.
Ebrahim Raisi died at the age of 63.
The late President Raisi served as Iranian President for nearly three years, he became President in 2021 amid low voter turnout and wide disqualification of reformist and moderate candidates, and appeared to have secured a firm footing for re-election.
Raisi made many speeches since the start of the war on Gaza in October to condemn “gen0cide” and “mass@cres” committed by Israel against Palestinians, and called on the international community to intervene.
He promised revenge against Israel after it levelled Tehran’s consulate building in Syria and k!lled seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals.
Iranian President was a strong backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who Iran has supported in his government’s war against the Syrian opposition, which has left hundreds of thousands de@d.
Source Aljazeera
