DUBAI, United Arab Emirates.— A helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials reportedly crashed in a mountainous area of the country’s northwest on Sunday, prompting a massive rescue operation in a fog-covered forest as politicians They called on citizens to pray.
The development comes after Iran, under the leadership of Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack against Israel last month, and at a time when Iran is enriching uranium to levels close to those needed. for war purposes.
Iran has also been suffering years of mass protests against its Shiite theocracy, against the poor economy and in favor of women’s rights, making this an extremely sensitive time for Iran.
