Helicopter with Iranian president on board suffers ‘hard landing’: Live updates

State media reports that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and entourage traveling in by helicopter entourage encountered a “hard landing.”

President was in country’s East Azerbaijan province, located in Iran’s northwest.

It is unclear what happened to the helicopter, and semi-official Tasnim news agency is describing the occurrence as an ‘incident’. The aircraft was also reportedly carrying the country’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.