Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional details. Iranian state news agency IRINN and semi-official news agency Mehr News reported that there were “no survivors” at the crash site of the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi. What Happened: Raisi, a former hardline judiciary chief, became Iran’s eighth president in 2021 after a historically uncompetitive presidential election. As a former prosecutor and judge, he oversaw a period of intensified repression of dissent, according to human rights monitors, according to CNN. Raisi was seen as a close ally of Iran’s Supreme L…
