Good morning. At about 8am in Tehran, Iranian state media reported that president Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash along with his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. The two had been in a helicopter that came down on Sunday in heavy fog in Iran’s mountainous northwest.
You can follow the latest updates on the situation on the live blog, and read Patrick Wintour’s analysis and Peter Beaumont’s profile. Today’s newsletter, though, is about the public inquiry on the contaminated blood scandal, which will publish its final report at 1230pm, almost seven years after it was ordered by Theresa May.
