The helicopter went down in the Varzeqan region north of Tabriz, state news agency IRNA reported, as Raisi returned from an official visit to the border with Azerbaijan in Iran's northwest.
"The only crash in history where everyone is worried if someone survived," exiled Iranian-American journalist and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad said.
Very expensive and highly rated US universities have been accepting growing numbers of Middle Eastern students for the past 20 years or more. These are students able to afford the wildly expensive full tuition required at top institutions. They make it possible for universities to offer scholarships to Americans who could not possibly pay the tuition themselves.
Reservist Eyal Berkowitz set out to retrieve the bodies of hostages from the Jabaliya area, but was killed by a roadside bomb.
"No apology. No explanation. I believe this is a perfect example of 'too little, too late,'" Davidai commented.
