Dubai | Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hardliner 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, state media reported on Monday. He was 60.
Mr Amirabdollahian represented the hardline shift in Iran after the collapse of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers after then-US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord. He served under President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
