Iraq has instructed its interior ministry, the Red Crescent and other relevant bodies to offer help to neighboring Iran and assist in the search after the Iranian president's helicopter crashed.
A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi takes off, May 19, 2024. Ali Hamed Haghdoust/IRNA/WANA via Reuters
Iraq has instructed its interior ministry, the Red Crescent and other relevant bodies to offer help to neighboring Iran and assist in the search after the Iranian president's helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain, the Iraqi government said in a statement on Sunday.
Search efforts are underway to locate the wreckage of the aircraft and any possible survivors.
According to sources in Tehran, the Iranian president has likely perished in the crash.
France will not think twice about reimposing United Nations sanctions on Iran if negotiations to reach a deal over its nuclear programme do not succeed, its foreign minister told the U.N. Security Council late on Monday.
Iran has proposed meeting the European parties to a 2015 nuclear deal possibly in Rome this Friday if talks resume with the United States, four diplomats said on Monday, cautioning that there has yet to be a response from the Europeans to the idea.
Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said on Monday that he believed U.S. President Donald Trump would not agree to a "bad" nuclear agreement with Iran.
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