Iranian state media broadcast footage of rescue teams searching for a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
It said what it called a “hard landing” happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometres northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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