Brief: Iranian helicopter carrying president, foreign minister missing
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 747 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: A helicopter carrying Iran's president and foreign minister is missing. Intense fighting and Israeli strikes continued in north Gaza.The White House has approved more weapons for Israel. The US military opened a pier off Gaza's coast to deliver aid and the International Court of Justice was asked to stop Israel's offensive in Rafah. Israeli politicians increased pressure It is day 226 of the war. At least 35,386 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Resul Serdar, (@ResulSerdarAtas), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Kimberly Halkett, (@KimberlyHalkett), Al Jazeera White House Correspondent
- James Bays, (@baysontheroad), Al Jazeera Diplomatic Editor
- Mohammed Jamjoom, (@MIJamjoom), Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. |
| 0:05.0 | We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza continues. |
| 0:16.0 | Intense fighting and Israeli strikes continued in North Gaza. |
| 0:24.3 | The White House has approved more weapons for Israel. |
| 0:28.2 | Internal pressure is growing on Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 0:31.3 | Today is Sunday, May 19. |
| 0:35.2 | It is day 226 of the war. |
| 0:44.3 | More than 35,386 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:55.7 | According to Iranian state media, a helicopter carrying Iran's president, Ibrahim Raisi, |
| 1:01.6 | and the Iranian foreign minister, is missing after a, quote, hard landing in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. |
| 1:04.3 | Fog and poor weather conditions are making it increasingly difficult for rescue efforts to locate |
| 1:09.3 | the helicopter. |
| 1:12.0 | In Tehran, Al Jazeera's Rasul Serder said more details were expected. |
| 1:17.2 | They say that the reason for that are the harsh weather conditions, the bad weather there. |
| 1:23.6 | They say that it is a mountainous place. |
| 1:26.1 | It is densely forest. It's rainy. It's foggy. And all of these factors combined are really making their force very, very difficult. It's hammering their rescue a force. I have been also checking in the last couple of hours, checking the area, the weather conditions there, |
| 1:45.1 | you can obviously see that the visibility is quite limited. |
| 1:50.1 | And now it's evening in evening time in Iran, and it is getting darker and darker. |
| 1:57.3 | So we can expect that even this is going to further make the task quite challenging |
| 2:05.5 | for the rescue teams there. We do not know about the situation, whether they are injured |
| 2:11.1 | or even they have some more serious conditions there. However, here also, we know that in case of the death of the president, in 50 days, the country |
| 2:24.3 | needs to go to an election, and during that period, the first vice president, is going |
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