{"id":31808,"date":"2024-05-19T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=31808"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:38:15","slug":"just-in-helicopter-carrying-irans-president-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/19\/just-in-helicopter-carrying-irans-president-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Helicopter Carrying Iran\u2019s President Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter carrying Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has been involved in an incident while he was visiting neighbouring Azerbaijan, Iran\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on X on Sunday according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the president\u2019s companions on this helicopter were able to communicate with Central Headquarters, raising hopes that the incident could have ended without casualties,\u201d it added<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what the exact status is of Raisi\u2019s helicopter, CNN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was part of a convoy of three helicopters. Two of those helicopters were carrying ministers and officials who arrived at their destination safely, according to Tasnim.<\/p>\n<p>Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem, Tabriz\u2019s Friday Prayer Imam, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were also reportedly on the helicopter with the president,\u201d Tasnim said on X.<\/p>\n<p>Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem, Tabriz\u2019s Friday Prayer Imam, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were also reportedly on the helicopter with the president,\u201d Tasnim said on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter carrying Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has been involved in an incident while he was visiting neighbouring Azerbaijan, Iran\u2019s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on X on Sunday according to CNN. \u201cSome of the president\u2019s companions on this helicopter were able to communicate with Central Headquarters, raising hopes that the incident could have ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31812,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31808\/revisions\/31812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}