{"id":36823,"date":"2024-05-19T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36823"},"modified":"2024-05-20T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:12:37","slug":"one-of-three-helicopters-carrying-iranian-president-faces-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/one-of-three-helicopters-carrying-iranian-president-faces-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"One of three helicopters carrying Iranian President faces accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iranian media report that a<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in an accident while traveling in East Azerbaijan province<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of his companions in the helicopter &#8220;managed to make contact with the center. Rescue teams are continuing their efforts to reach the crash site, Iranian media reported.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The helicopter carrying President Raisi was the only one affected by the accident.\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Also on board were Ayatollah Al-Hashem, the Friday Prayer Leader of Tabriz, and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Foreign Minister of Iran<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/iranian-president-raisi-concludes-three-day-pakistan-visit\/\">Iranian President Raisi concludes three-day Pakistan visit<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ali Zakari, Deputy Governor for Development in East Azerbaijan, told the &#8220;Sharq Network&#8221; website, &#8220;I have not yet arrived at the accident site and do not have details about the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zakari stated that the accident occurred near Varzeqan and continued, &#8220;There were three helicopters, two of which landed safely, and one of them crashed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The provincial official emphasized that the number and identities of any potential casualties, as well as the exact cause and details of the incident, are not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>*Recent Development, More to Follow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iranian media report that a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in an accident while traveling in East Azerbaijan province Some of his companions in the helicopter &#8220;managed to make contact with the center. Rescue teams are continuing their efforts to reach the crash site, Iranian media reported. The helicopter carrying President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15060],"class_list":["post-36823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-iranian-president-ibrahim-raisi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}