(19 May 2024)
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Tehran, Iran – 19 May 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of supporters praying for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
2. Various of supporters looking at their mobile phones showing video of Raisi
3. Supporters praying
4. Men crying
5. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mehdi Seyedi, Tehran resident:
"We hope that god willing we hear the news that he is in good health. If anything happens to him we’ll be heartbroken. But we are hopeful and hoping in God. May the prayers work and he returns to the arms of the nation safe and sound."
6. Various of supporters praying
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Reza Sareban, Tehran resident:
"We heard the news and we are sad like others. We pray he and his company are safe."
8. Wide of supporters during prayers
STORYLINE:
A group of supporters gathered in central Tehran late on Sunday to pray for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi following a helicopter incident in the mountainous northwest of the country.
Raisi was travelling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province.
State TV said what it called a “hard landing” happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Later, state TV put it farther east near the village of Uzi, but details remained contradictory.
Traveling with Raisi were Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
One local government official used the word “crash,” but others referred to either a “hard landing” or an “incident.”
Neither IRNA nor state TV offered any information on Raisi’s condition in the hours afterward.
AP video shot by: Mohsen Ganji
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