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What we know so far about the helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president and others

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By ABBY SEWELL
Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — The helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region. Iranian state media says President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest. Raisi was returning on Sunday after traveling to Iran’s border with Azerbaijan to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan’s president. State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash. Under Iran’s constitution, if a president dies, the country’s first vice president — in this case, Mohammad Mokhber — would become president.

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