Sunday Etuka, with agency report
Following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a Helicopter Crash, on Sunday, the Vice President, Muhammad Mukhbar is set to be sworn in as President.
This is pending the approval of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with the constitution stipulating that a new President must be elected within 50 days.
President Raisi and his foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, and other officials were killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday, after search teams located the wreckage in East Azerbaijan province.
“President Raisi, the foreign minister and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash,” the senior Iranian official told Reuters, asking not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Iran’s Mehr news agency confirmed the deaths, reporting that “all passengers of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president and foreign minister were martyred”.
An Iranian official earlier told Reuters the helicopter carrying Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was completely burned in the crash on Sunday.
