Breaking Newscast: Iran’s President killed in helicopter crash
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
The hard-line cleric was killed alongside Iran’s foreign minister when a helicopter they were travelling in, crashed in heavy fog in northern Iran. The president was elected in 2021 and was seen as a potential successor to Iran’s Supreme Leader.
Adam is joined by the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet to discuss what this means for Iran and the region.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:05.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello it's Adam in the studio and this is your breaking newscast about the death of the |
| 0:16.3 | Iranian President Ibrahim Raise in a helicopter crash over the weekend. We'll try and |
| 0:22.1 | untangle what might have happened, what could happen |
| 0:24.8 | and what the implications of this are. And the person who's going to help us do that is a friend of the |
| 0:28.2 | podcast, Chief International Correspondent, Lease Doucette. Hi, Lease. |
| 0:32.0 | Adam, if someone would have predicted that I'd be sitting here with you today discussing who |
| 0:38.0 | will be the next president of Iran and how consequential is this process I would have said Adam all of the focus now is |
| 0:47.3 | intense speculation about who have replaced the top guy the supreme leader iatollah |
| 0:52.4 | manii so a reminder if one was top guy, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. |
| 0:53.0 | So a reminder, if one was needed, |
| 0:55.4 | those of us who watch politics, |
| 0:57.8 | we have to watch most of all, |
| 0:59.2 | which the events which come from behind |
| 1:01.8 | and take us completely by surprise. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah, and we're recording this episode at 25 past 9 on Monday morning. |
| 1:07.5 | And actually, yeah, we're witnessing one of those moments where Middle Eastern history |
| 1:11.8 | takes a bit of a turn. A bit a tragic turn. Yesterday |
| 1:16.2 | afternoon on a summer's day here in Britain and in countries across the world |
| 1:21.2 | most of all in Iran came came the news, there had been, and I use the phrase, |
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