WATCH: Iran deploys rescue teams to site of helicopter incident involving President Raisi

WATCH: Iran deploys rescue teams to site of helicopter incident involving President Raisi

Iranian state media broadcast footage of rescue teams searching for a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

It said what it called a “hard landing” happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometres northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.