Iran President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash along with the foreign minister and other officials on the 19th, local time. Raisi had been tipped as a possible successor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has spent decades supporting armed groups and militants in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and the Palestinian territories, and so this recent death is expected to reverberate across the Middle East.  Watch Now