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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were killed Sunday when their helicopter crashed near the border with Azerbaijan. teleSUR
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00:00Ebrahim Raisi, 64 years old, served as national president since 2021, when he won the elections
00:05with 61% of the votes in his favor.
00:08He was also a member of the Assembly of Experts since 2007 and served as attorney general
00:12between 2014 and 2016.
00:15He also held the position of vice president of the Supreme Court from 2004 to 2021, under
00:20the mandate of Ebrahim Raisi, the state developed a strong foreign policy committed to peace
00:25and regional stability.
00:27He deeply rejected the Israeli genocide against the population of the Gaza Strip.
00:30In the internal order, he managed to confront the sanctions imposed unfairly by the United
00:34States.
00:35Ebrahim Raisi grew up in Mashhad, home of the holiest Shia shrine in Iran.
00:40Coming from a clerical family, he participated as a teenager in the 1979 revolution that
00:45overthrew the Shah, backed by the West.
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