Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were confirmed dead Monday after their helicopter crashed in a mountainousregion of the country.
The helicopter, manufactured by U.S. company Bell, plummeted in a remote area blanketed with fog near the border with Azerbaijan. The bodies of Raisi and Amirabdollahian, along with six others on board, were found on Monday after a search.
The pair are not the first world leaders to lose their lives in an aircraft crash. Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms as the president of Chile, was killed when his helicopter crashed in February.
Through the years, the deaths of both American and international politicians in such crashes have stirred grief, blame, and conspiracy theories.
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