Iran’s national broadcaster had stopped all regular programming to show prayers being held for Raisi across the country.
In the early hours of Monday local time, it broadcast footage of a rescue team, wearing bright jackets and head torches, huddled around a GPS device as they searched a pitch-black mountainside on foot amid a snowy blizzard.
“We are thoroughly searching every inch of the general area of the crash,” state media quoted a regional army commander as saying.
“The area has very cold, rainy, and foggy weather conditions. The rain is gradually turning into snow.”
thoughts and prayers motherfucker.