The helicopter crash that killed Iran맥스카지노�s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region.Iranian state media said on Monday that President Ebrahim Raisi, the country맥스카지노�s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, and others have been found dead at the site after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country맥스카지노�s northwest.Here맥스카지노�s what we know so far.WHO WAS ON BOARD THE HELICOPTER AND WHERE WERE THEY GOING?The helicopter was carrying Raisi, Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran맥스카지노�s East Azerbaijan province and others officials, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.Raisi was returning on Sunday after traveling to Iran맥스카지노�s border with Azerbaijan to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan맥스카지노�s President Ilham Aliyev when the crash happened in the Dizmar forest in Iran맥스카지노�s East Azerbaijan province.IRNA said the crash killed eight people in all, including three crew members aboard the Bell helicopter, which Iran purchased in the early 2000s. Aircraft in Iran face a shortage of parts, often flying without safety checks over Western sanctions. Because of that, former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sought to blame the United States for the crash.The U.S. has yet to comment publicly on Raisi맥스카지노�s death.HOW DID THE SEARCH OPERATION GO?Iranian officials have said the mountainous, forested terrain and heavy fog impeded search-and-rescue operations, which began on Sunday.The president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir-Hossein Koulivand, said 40 search teams were on the ground despite 맥스카지노�challenging weather conditions.맥스카지노� Because of the bad weather, it was "impossible to conduct aerial searches맥스카지노� via drones, Koulivand said, according to IRNA.HOW WAS THE CRASH SITE FOUND?Early on Monday, Turkish authorities released what they described as drone footage showing what appeared to be a fire in the wilderness that they 맥스카지노�suspected to be wreckage of a helicopter.맥스카지노� The coordinates listed in the footage put the fire some 12 miles south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border on the side of a steep mountain.Footage released by IRNA showed what the agency described as the crash site, across a steep valley in a green mountain range. Soldiers speaking in the local Azeri language said: 맥스카지노�There it is, we found it.맥스카지노� Shortly after, state TV in an on-screen scrolling text said: 맥스카지노�There is no sign of life from people on board.맥스카지노�HOW WILL RAISI'S DEATH IMPACT IRAN?Raisi was seen as a protégé to Iran맥스카지노�s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a potential successor for his position within the country맥스카지노�s Shiite theocracy.Under the Iranian constitution, if a president dies, the country맥스카지노�s first vice president 맥스카지노� in this case, Mohammad Mokhber 맥스카지노� would become president. Khamenei has publicly assured Iranians that there would be 맥스카지노�no disruption to the operations of the country맥스카지노� as a result of the crash.WHAT HAS THE INTERNATIONAL REACTION BEEN?After the news first broke of the search operation, countries including Russia, Iraq and Qatar made formal statements of concern about Raisi맥스카지노�s fate and offered to assist in the search.Azerbaijani President Aliyev offered any support necessary. Relations between the two countries have been chilly due to Azerbaijan맥스카지노�s diplomatic relations with Israel, Iran's regional arch-enemy.Saudi Arabia, traditionally a rival of Iran although the two countries have recently made a rapprochement, said it stands by "Iran in these difficult circumstances.맥스카지노�There was no immediate official reaction from Israel. Last month, following an Israeli strike on an Iranian consular building in Damascus that killed two Iranian generals, Tehran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel. They were mostly shot down and tensions have apparently since subsided.