Later, state TV put it farther east near the village of Uzi, but details remained contradictory.
One local government official used the word “crash,” but others referred to either a “hard landing” or an “incident.”.
Neither IRNA nor state TV offered any information on Raisi’s condition in the hours afterward.
State TV aired images of SUVs racing through a wooded area and said they were being hampered by poor weather conditions, including heavy rain and wind.
A helicopter carrying President Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without elaborating.
Raisi had been on the border with Azerbaijan early Sunday to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
In March, a United Nations investigative panel found that Iran was responsible for the “physical violence” that led to Amini’s death. »
