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People attend the funeral ceremony for the victims of a helicopter crash which killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran..
The Iranian government has requested the US to assist in probing the deadly helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi, his foreign minister, and six others but Washington wont assist Tehran largely due to logistical reasons, according to a senior American diplomat...
Raisi, 63, a possible successor for Irans supreme leader, the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six others were found dead on Monday hours after their helicopter crashed in fog, leaving the Islamic Republic without two key leaders as extraordinary tensions grip the wider Middle East...
US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller at a press briefing said the US when asked for assistance by the Iranian government made it clear that it was ready to offer assistance, as it would do in response to any request by a foreign government in this sort of situation, but was not able to provide any help...
In response to a question on the United States extending official condolences and participating in a moment of silence for Raisi at the UN Security Council, Miller said the US had been quite clear that Raisi was a brutal participant in the repression of the Iranian people for nearly four decades but Washington regretted any loss of life in a helicopter crash...
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