Iranian state television released video from inside the helicopter before it crashed showing President Ebrahim Raisi with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolakhian.
The video includes footage of their visit from the ceremony for the opening of a dam on Iran's border with Azerbaijan, which they attended.
The rescue crews recovered the body of Raisi and the other eight passengers this morning
In the helicopter, in addition to Iranian President Ebrahim Raishi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolakhian, the governor of East Azerbaijan province, the imam of the Friday prayer of Tabriz, the pilot and co-pilot of the helicopter, the crew chief, the security chief and a bodyguard.
The helicopter disappeared from radar yesterday, Sunday, while flying over a rugged and forested area in northwest Iran amid adverse weather conditions, with rain and thick fog. Its wreckage was found at dawn today on a mountainside.
Intensive searches for the helicopter continued throughout the evening. The rescue crews recovered the body of Raisi and the other eight passengers this morning.
Source: in.gr
