Helicopter carrying Iranian President involved in accident- State Media

Helicopter carrying Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian has been involved in an accident, state media says

Reports say the helicopter , one of three travelling in a convoy -made a “hard landing” after it got into difficulties in heavy fog in the North of the country

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said rescuers were still trying to reach the site, but that their efforts were being hampered by the poor weather conditions

Details of what exactly happened remain unclear, and there’s been no official confirmation of Raisi’s whereabouts

Raisi was heading to the North-Eastern city of Tabriz after returning from an Iran-Azerbaijan border area