Iranian President Raisi confirmed dead in helicopter crash
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other high-ranking politicians have been killed in a helicopter crash. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered a period of national mourning. Raisi was declared dead after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter Afghanistan's Taliban saddened by death of Iranian president Afghanistan's Taliban government said they were deeply saddened by the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. "We share our grief with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the people of that country and offer our condolences to all the families of the victims, the nation and the government of Iran," the Taliban prime minister, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, said in a statement. Iran is one of the few nations that maintained a diplomatic presence in Kabul after the Taliban regained power in 2021. No country has recognized Kabul's new rulers yet, but the Taliban authorities have taken over the Af...