Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, dies in helicopter crash aged 63

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country in poor weather.

The 63-year-old, a figure representing conservative and hardline factions in Iranian politics, was president for nearly three years and appeared on track to run for re-election next year.

Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar looks back at his life.

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[Memesbyaamir]

Out of three helicopters, 2 flew back fine, but 1 crashed with high officials on board. It all sounds pretty fishy, like sabotage.

[Desert_Kingdom]

Azerbaijan has Israeli mossad Everywhere. 🤔

[blususpect]

Wishing the best for the people of Iran 🇮🇷

[GermanAuto]

A moment of silence for the helicopter 🚁

[hgfku-tnhb]

Hopefully the leader to follow shall respect human rights for Iranians

[ErAejazThokar]

Everyone who comes here have to go back one day.

[georgiosdem]

The Executioner of his people is "gone".

[thevagabond]

I was praying for Iranian people and look what happened. Gosh. Prayers truly work.

[samfromuk]

CIA said last maintenance checks were all fine.

[marcelnowakowski]

Who shot the missile at the helicopter?
I missed this part...

[pr-jini]

Salman Rushdie outlives yet another hardline Iranian leader. The irony is delicious.

[xii]

There is a time and a season for everything under the sun a time to be born and a time to die.

[prasadjoshi]

Don't believe in the rumours.
The president is playing hide and seek in the bushes.

[Habufffff]

The narrator literally said "thousands of prisoners were sentenced to death and executed" like it's nothing, and it goes right over you people's heads. Sickening.

[xxiripw]

Condolences to the trees and helicopter

[CaliDraco]

Easy to blame Israel. I wonder how many enemies he had in his own country.

[Animodeus]

This Karma at it's finest
It's doesn't matter if you are submitted to allah or not, if you do bad things, allah will punish you

Last month a 14 year old girl was SA by morality police, and the president did nothing, it's a beautiful day for Iranian people

[vinm]

WRONG !
He died in a "hard landing"
LOL

[shlomozarhi]

raisi was cruel and so is the iranian regime.they will find another cruel man to replace him.sorry for the iranian people who has to live under a cruel regime that interested only in destruction.

[dr.petrovski]

How unfortunate as this was a brand new helicopter