Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash

DUBAI — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the nation’s supreme chief who helped oversee the mass executions of hundreds in 1988 and later led the nation because it enriched uranium close to weapons-grade ranges and launched a serious drone-and-missile assault on Israel, has died. He was 63.

Mr. Raisi’s sudden dying, together with Iran’s international minister and different officers in a helicopter crash Sunday in northwestern Iran, got here as Iran struggles with inside dissent and its relations with the broader world. A cleric first, Mr. Raisi as soon as kissed the Quran, the Islamic holy e-book, earlier than the United Nations and spoke extra like a preacher than a statesman when addressing the world.