2024-05-23 06:16:23
Mansour Arazi, the poet of Iranian Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei, reported to media sources in Iran that the physique of President Ibrahim Raisi was discovered on the web site of the helicopter crash, so charred that it couldn’t even be cleaned earlier than burial.
Iranian opposition whistleblowers produced {a photograph} from a video of the preliminary rescue operations on the crash web site during which they stated Raisi’s charred physique could possibly be seen. Picture 18+ is on the market by way of the hyperlink within the publication by Alexey Zheleznova.
Kursor additionally reported that the pinnacle of Ibrahim Raisi’s administration, Golam Hossein Esmaili, spoke concerning the penalties of the accident of the presidential helicopter. Esmaili was aboard certainly one of three helicopters getting back from the opening ceremony of a dam on the Iran-Azerbaijan border when the collision occurred.
He stated three helicopters took off round 1:00 p.m. native time on Sunday in favorable climate. Nonetheless, after 45 minutes of flying within the mountainous area of Varzegan, the pilot of the helicopter carrying President Raisi encountered a pointy deterioration in climate situations and ordered the others to extend their altitude to keep away from the harmful cloud. Regardless of this, the presidential helicopter out of the blue disappeared from sight.
After the disappearance of the helicopter, Esmaili and his group tried to determine radio contact with the presidential helicopter, however all makes an attempt have been in useless. After a number of makes an attempt, their helicopter landed at a close-by copper mine, the place the pilot was unable to decrease altitude on account of thick clouds. Iranian Overseas Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and the pinnacle of the presidential safety service additionally didn’t reply calls after the crash. The pilots of the opposite two helicopters contacted Captain Mostafavi, who was answerable for the presidential helicopter.
Esmaili added that after the invention of the crash web site, it was clear that President Raisi, Abdollahian and different crew members died immediately. Imam Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Alehashem, additionally on board, survived in critical situation for a number of hours after the crash and managed to speak with officers earlier than his demise.
Earlier, Kursor reported that the State Division spoke about Iran’s request to the US associated to Raisi’s demise.