21
May
The Parliamentary Friendship Association-Iran of the Parliament of Ghana has sent its commiserations to the Islamic Republic of Iran and its people on the death of President Seyed Dr. Ebrahim Raisi. The 63-year-old Raisi was killed on Sunday, May 19, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other high-ranking officials, in a helicopter crash in Iran’s remote northwest. The incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with Azerbaijan, about 375 miles (600km) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran. The president had been travelling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. Raisi had been in Azerbaijan early on Sunday to inaugurate…