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Newshour: 19/05/2024 20:06 GMT: Helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi crashes in mountains

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Helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi crashes in mountains

19/05/2024 20:06 GMT

19/05/2024 20:06 GMT: Helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi crashes in mountains

BBC World Service - Newshour, Helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi crashes in mountains

Rescue teams search a remote mountain region for a helicopter carrying Iran's president

Rescue teams are searching a remote mountain region for a helicopter carrying Iran's president and foreign minister. We have the latest, and ask what it could mean for Iran.

Rescue teams in Iran are searching a remote mountain region for a helicopter carrying the country's president and foreign minister, which is reported to have crashed.  We have the latest on the search mission - and ask what the outcome might mean for Iran.  

Also in the programme: as a second member of Israel's three-man war cabinet berates Benjamin Netanyahu over his lack of a plan for the day after the Gaza war, we ask where next for the prime minister; and an extraordinary row between Spain and Argentina over a presidential speech in Madrid.

(IMAGE: A helicopter carrying Iran"s President Ebrahim Raisi takes off, near the Iran-Azerbaijan border, May 19, 2024. The helicopter with Raisi on board later crashed. / CREDIT: Ali Hamed Haghdoust/IRNA/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

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