Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-liner close to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who confronted the West while also overseeing indirect talks with the US over the country’s nuclear program, died in the helicopter crash that also killed the country’s President Ebrahim Raisi, state media reported Monday. He was 60.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a diplomat who praised Soleimani, dies in helicopter crash
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