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US offers condolences over deaths of Iran’s president, FM, reaffirms ‘support for the Iranian people’
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The helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi taking off at the Iranian border with Azerbaijan, after the inauguration of the dam of Qiz Qalasi, in Aras, on May 19, 2024. (Ali Hamed Haghdoust/ Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA)/ AFP)
The US offers its condolences over the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the other members of their delegation, who were killed in yesterday’s helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
“As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms,” US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says in a statement.
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