{"id":50687,"date":"2024-05-20T07:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-killed-in-chopper-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T07:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:35:38","slug":"iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-killed-in-chopper-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-killed-in-chopper-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi killed in chopper crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials and state media said the charred wreckage of the helicopter carrying Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was found early on Monday after an overnight search.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Raisi, the foreign minister and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash,&#8221; a senior Iranian official was quoted by Reuters moments before Vice President Mohsen Mansouri confirmed the president&#8217;s death on state television and social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Bell 212 helicopter carrying the president is said to have slammed into a mountain peak, although an official statement on the cause of the crash is yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old was elected president in 2021. He was seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>Touted as a hardliner, he has in recent years tightened morality laws, crackdown on anti-government protests and pushed hard in nuclear talks with world powers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-66995 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/iranian_president_.png\" alt=\"Officials and state media said the charred wreckage of the helicopter carrying Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was found early on Monday after an overnight search.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been confirmed dead following a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border on Sunday, May 19, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000066994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000066994,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/iranian_president_.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/iranian_president_.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/iranian_president_.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/iranian_president_.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/iranian_president_.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/iranian_president_.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000066994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50687"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50687"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}