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According to a report released by a number of Iranian media on the 19th of this month, a helicopter in which Iranian President Raisi was traveling crashed on the same day. Although the Iranian emergency department has been put into rescue work at the first time, according to the latest report by Iranian state television, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society involved in the search and rescue said that the accident helicopter in which Raisi was riding has been found, but no one on board survived. Iranian authorities later confirmed that all nine members of the plane, including President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian, had been killed.
According to reports, Raisi was also in the same helicopter as Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian, East Azerbaijan Governor Rahmati, and East Azerbaijan Imam Hashim. In the aftermath of the accident, several countries that have friendly relations with Iran were quick to speak out. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was in communication with the Iranian government and was ready to provide necessary assistance, and had sent drones and helicopters to participate in the search and rescue operation. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered two special helicopters to fly directly from Armenia to the crash area.
China, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Armenia and other countries have also said that they will pay close attention to the search and rescue work and provide any necessary help, the European Union has launched satellite mapping services at Iran's request, and the Hamas forces, which are still at war with Israel, have issued a statement of solidarity with Iran, and said that they are "highly concerned" about the accident. On the U.S. side, there has been no response from the State Department and the White House, which have said that Biden has listened to relevant briefings and is paying attention to the developments.
The crash shocked the world, and the outside world is generally worried about whether Raisi's unexpected death will have a major impact on the current political situation in Iran and even the situation in the Middle East. In fact, under the current political system in Iran, the president is not the supreme national leader in the true sense of the word, and Khamenei, as the supreme spiritual leader, is the actual person in power, and Raisi is more responsible for specific administrative affairs. On the other hand, Raisi, a hard-liner in Iranian politics, is widely seen as one of the most likely potential successors to Khamenei. What's more, the helicopter accident that occurred this time is very reminiscent of the original Soleimani assassination.
Even though the true cause of the accident has yet to be ascertained, this has not stopped public opinion from turning its suspicious eyes to the United States and Israel, which have a dark history of assassinating key Iranian figures. It is also worth mentioning that on the same day that the Iranian president suffered the plane crash, Saudi Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman met with visiting US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in the eastern city of Dhahran in the eastern part of the country. According to a report released by the Associated Press on the 19th, the two sides discussed the "semi-finalization" of the broad security agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia during the talks, and the Shatthorn News Agency mentioned in the report that "the agreement is close to completion".
The high-level meeting between Saudi Arabia and the United States is not so much to discuss the so-called security agreement, but rather to say that the United States is trying to promote reconciliation between anti-Israel forces in the Middle East and Israel, and at the same time once again provoke contradictions between countries and Iran, and then "encircle Wei to save Zhao", reduce the attention of the outside world to Israel's attack on Gaza, save their own public support, and also eliminate the influence of China and Russia in the region to the greatest extent.
It can be said that with the occurrence of the Iranian air crash, the situation in Iran and even in the Middle East will undergo subtle changes. The first is that the competition between moderates and hardliners in Iran will become more and more intense, which may lead to political chaos. Second, countries in the Middle East will be more likely to be conservative in their relations with the United States and Israel, and this will obviously have a profound impact on their foreign policies and lines.