Attention shifts to US-made helicopter carrying Raisi

2 months ago

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was on a US-made Bell 212 helicopter on Sunday when it crashed near the northwestern city of Tabriz, killing Raisi and his delegation that was coming back from Azerbaijan. None of the passengers emerged alive from the wreckage of the helicopter, which Iran procured decades ago from the US before the 1979 Iranian revolution. The Bell 212 was