Ali Bagheri Kani appointed as Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister

Tehran SANA- The spokesperson for the Iranian government, Ali Bahadori Jahromi announced today that Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri was appointed as acting foreign minister of Iran following the martyrdom of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in a helicopter crash.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Amir-Abdollahian died in the helicopter crash that occurred on Sunday. President Raisi was returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on Iran’s border with the Republic of Azerbaijan, when his helicopter crashed upon landing in the Dizamar forest area in Varzaqan region between the village of Ouzi and Pir Davoud.

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