🇸🇾🇸🇦 The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, met today with Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, as part of the 33rd Arab Summit.

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— 🇳🇱/🇮🇱 The International Criminal Court in the Hague has posted new job openings for Hebrew interpreters

If this is what I think it is, the next few months are going to be extremely funny and satisfying.

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— 🇮🇷 BREAKING: A helicopter carrying the Iranian President and his delegation has been involved in an accident

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The Presidential helicopter made a 'hard landing' forced by extreme weather conditions in the area

The President and his entourage were returning from East Azerbaijan province when the helicopter was caught in the fog.

The Iranian Red Crescent is currently trying to locate the helicopter and has started a rescue action, which is difficult due to the weather conditions.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian media confirm that there was no 'accident', but that the President's helicopter was forced to perform an emergency landing

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Currently, there is no detailed information available, we will wait to report only confirmed and correct news.

Some are reporting the President is safe, while others have reported that contact has been lost. Until now, nothing is clear.

— 🇮🇷 Iran's Interior Minister: 'Due to the heavy forestation, weather conditions and limited coverage, it is currently not possible to make contact with the President and his entourage'

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Amir Abdollahian, Iran's Foreign Minister, was also on board of the helicopter, together with the President and the Governor of East Azerbaijan Province

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: During the emergency landing, one member of the Iranian delegation managed to make a call by satellite phone; after this, contact was lost

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The area that is being searched is mountainous and forested, it is raining and there is a thick fog; visibility is less than 5 meters, rescue workers reported

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— 🇮🇷 Video of the rescue operation being underway

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The area where the President's helicopter made a crash landing.

If the President, God forbid, has been martyred, then his Vice President Mohammed Mokhber will assume power, and an election will be held within 50 days.

لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱللَّٰهِ

— 🇮🇷 NEW: The first rescue team has located and reached the site of the crash landing, per the Iranian Red Crescent

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The news will come in a few minutes.