How are Iran's allies responding to the news?
- Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sends his condolences to his "dear friend" President Raisi. In a statement on X, formerly Twitter, he says he witnessed Raisi's "efforts to have peace" in Iran and the wider region
- Pakistan's recently elected prime minister Shehbaz Sharif says Raisi and Foeign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian "were good friends of Pakistan"
- Afghanistan's acting prime minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund says they share "the grief of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its people"
- After Hamas, the leader of Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, released a statement, sending "sincere condolences and sympathy to the brotherly Iranian people"
- Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad a Thani, of one of the few allies of Iran in the Gulf, Qatar, sends his condolences to the Iranian people
- Iran's neighbour Iraq also expresses "solidarity with the brotherly Iranian people"
- Thousands of miles away from Iran, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, writes on X that he is deeply saddened "to have to say goodbye to an exemplary person, an extraordinary leader of the world"
We reported earlier that Mohammad Mokhber would become interim president of Iran - that has now been confirmed by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on X.
He says Mokhber will cooperate with the other branches - legislative and judiciary - in "facilitating" the election of a new president within the next 50 days.
THIS AND MORE UPDATES AT: Iran president helicopter crash live updates: President Ebrahim Raisi dies - state TV - BBC News
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