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Now playing Next no comment Coffin of Iranian President Raisi arrives in Tabriz Hundreds of mourners took to the streets of Tabriz on Tuesday to pay their respects to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. 21/05/2024
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Now playing Next no comment WATCH: Iran deploys rescue teams to site of helicopter incident Iranian state TV 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. 20/05/2024
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Now playing Next Iran Iranian president killed in helicopter crash Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crashed in the mountainous northwest of Iran on Sunday. 20/05/2024
Now playing Next Iran Iranian president's helicopter in 'hard landing', state media reports Traveling with Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. 19/05/2024
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