Tehran –
Iran was thrown into limbo on Sunday as search and rescue teams scoured a fog-shrouded mountain area after President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter went missing in what state media described as an “accident”.
Fears grew for the 63-year-old ultraconservative after losing contact with the plane carrying him, as well as Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others in East Azerbaijan province, reports said.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Iranians “not to worry” about the Islamic republic’s leadership, saying “there will be no disruption in the country’s work.”
