According to state media reports, Iran's president has died in a helicopter crash.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were declared dead Monday following a helicopter crash, as reported by Iranian state media.

According to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the helicopter was carrying other senior officials, but no survivors had been found at the crash site as of 8 a.m. local time.

Earlier, the president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society confirmed that rescue and search teams had identified Raisi's crashed helicopter. The aircraft, carrying Raisi, Amir Abdollahian, and other senior officials, went down in a mountainous region of northwestern Iran while returning from an event near the Iranian-Azerbaijani border.

On Sunday, Iran's Inside Priest, Ahmad Vahidi, affirmed the "hard arriving" of the president's helicopter and said the hunt and-salvage activity is in progress, as per IRNA.

"Different salvage bunches are moving towards the site, however because of the haze and awful climate, it might require investment to arrive at the area. The work is taken care of," Vahidi said.

"There have been contacts with [the president's] colleagues, however considering that the region is uneven and it is challenging to lay out contacts, we trust that the salvage groups will arrive at the site of the episode sooner and give us more data," he added.

IRNA detailed that two travelers on the flight had spoken with salvage laborers.

Rescue teams searched intensely for the helicopter

Twenty salvage groups, including robots and canines, had been shipped off the scene, and the Iranian military had likewise sent troops to aid the salvage exertion, IRNA added.

The Fars News Organization posted what it said was video film of salvage groups that had been dispatched to the region of the helicopter's "hard landing."

Prior in the day, the Iranian government's X record posted a picture of Raisi situated close to Azerbaijan's leader, Ilham Aliyev, at the launch of a dam along the boundary between the two nations.

A post on Raisi's Instagram page requested that allies petition God for his wellbeing and that of his kindred travelers.

Iran's preeminent chief, Ali Khamenei, said in a post on X: "We trust All-powerful God will return the regarded, regarded President and his escort to the arms of the country."

Khamenei added that the public authority would keep working in the midst of the continuous circumstance

Raisi was chosen in 2021 and is a relative hard-liner

A previous minister and judge, Raisi was chosen president in 2021.

At the point when he came into office, Raisi said Iran would keep on respecting its atomic arrangement with the U.S., notwithstanding previous President Donald Trump's choice to haul out of the understanding in 2018.

In any case, Raisi has been seen as even more a hard-liner as opposed to his ancestor, previous Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.

Last month, Raisi observed Iran's assault on Israel following an airstrike in Damascus that killed seven individuals from the Islamic Progressive Gatekeeper Corps. Iran faulted Israel for the besieging, however Israel never asserted liability. Israel said it blocked the vast majority of the rockets and robots Iran terminated during its retaliatory strike.

Iran's leader is the top of its administration, however the nation is controlled by Khamenei, its incomparable chief.

Iran's preeminent chief sets public arrangements and administers their execution and furthermore controls the Islamic Progressive Watchman Corps and police force, as indicated by the Board on Unfamiliar Relations.

That's what iran's constitution directs assuming the president bites the dust while in office, the primary VP takes over with the endorsement of the country's preeminent chief, Reuters revealed. Another political decision should then be held in 50 days or less.

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