According to the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, the helicopter was not a terrorist target because it followed a predetermined route and did not deviate from it.
Half a minute before takeoff, the helicopter pilot contacted another convoy pilot. No evidence of bullets or similar objects were found in Dikuchar’s remains. After take off, the helicopter caught fire.
The report said there was no suspected communication problem between the control tower and the flight crew.
The Iranian General Staff’s initial report did not blame anyone.
President Ebrahim Raisi was laid to rest in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad on Thursday, four days after his death in a helicopter crash, as thousands of mourners lined the streets for the funeral.
Raisi, 63, is seen as a candidate to replace Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, 85, Iran’s last ruler.
Mohammad Mohbar, who was the first vice president, will serve as interim president until the June elections.
The funeral ceremony was attended by Iranian government and military officials and religious figures.
Flowers were placed on the casket as he slowly made his way through mourning until he was buried at the golden shrine of Imam Reza Shrine, the holiest Islamic site in Iran, believed to be the resting place of 9th-century Imam Ali al-Reza. Raisi was born in Mashhad, 900 km (560 miles) east of Tehran.
Thousands of people paid their respects as his coffin was driven in a car through the eastern town of Birjand.
The Dikuchar was carrying eight passengers and crew when it crashed in a mountainous area near the Azerbaijan border. killed. Among them is Foreign Minister Hussein Amirabdollahian.
Iran has declared five days of mourning for Raisi, who aims to take a tougher approach to foreign policy issues such as consolidating the power of his mentor Shiite cleric Khamenei, swaying public opinion and negotiating with Washington to restore Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal.
A memorial service for Amirabdollahia was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, where acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani described him as a martyr who “guaranteed the revolutionary character of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs”.
Amirabdollahian was buried at the Shah Abdolazim Ray Mosque, south of Tehran, a mausoleum attended by prominent Iranian politicians and artists.
No evidence of terrorism in Raisi’s helicopter crash, says report
