Australian PM Responds to Iranian President Helicopter Crash

Published on May 20, 2024

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says there is very little more he can add to reports that a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed. The helicopter carrying Mr. Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian went down in the mountainous northwest region of Iran. The president has died according to an official quoted by Reuters, however this official asked not to be named due to sensitivity. “President Raisi, the foreign minister and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash,” a senior Iranian official told Reuters. Iranian state media have also put out a recent post to social media stating there is no trace of survivors at the site of the Iranian president’s helicopter crash....