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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Watling

Mapped: Where did Iran President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter crash?

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner and potential successor to the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed in a helicopter crash.

The helicopter took off from the Khodaafarin Dam, in the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan, on Sunday afternoon.

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