Helicopter in convoy carrying Iranian president suffers ‘accident’ as rescuers rush to crash site

A helicopter in a three-person convoy carrying the Iranian president was involved in an accident today.

Ebrahim Raisi was traveling in the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan on Sunday.

State television described the area where the incident occurred near Jolfa, a town on the border with the state of Azerbaijan, about 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran.

Raisi was in Azerbaijan early Sunday to inaugurate a dam together with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

The dam is the third built by the two nations on the Aras River.