Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash – what happens next?

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Iran's president and foreign minister have both died after a helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain in northwest Iran
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A senior Iranian official told Reuters that President Abraham Raeisi and all other passengers on board were killed
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with the deaths later confirmed in a statement on social media by the vice president and on state television
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Rescue teams fought blizzards and difficult terrain through the night to reach the wreckage in the early hours of Monday
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President Raiisi was a hardliner and seen as the successor of the Supreme Leader
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who holds all decision-making powers when it comes to policy changes. The 63-year-old was first elected in 2021, and since taking office has ordered a tightening of morality laws
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overseen a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, and pushed hard in nuclear talks with world leaders
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So what happens now that Raiisi has died? Well in the interim the country vice president Muhammad Mukbiyah will take over as president His first job will be to call an election in the first 50 days of Raezi death an election which had been planned for 2025
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The election will come at a bit of a tricky time for the regime, with Iran being in a heightened
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state of tension with Israel and the country's younger generation becoming increasingly restless
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The last election in Iran saw the lowest turnout in the Iranians' republics
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history, just shy of 50%, along with a record number of blank or spoilt ballots
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Since the election, there have been further protests against what many, particularly young
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Iranians, see as an increasingly restrictive regime. And on another note, the markets have been responding in a way that they tend to do in the face of uncertainty
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with golds shooting up overnight. That uncertainty was mostly caused by the confusion around whether Raiisi had died, and
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a head of state TV confirming the death. For more and all of the updates on this story
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