TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) – Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, along with other world officials expressed his condolences on the martyrdom of the Iran President, Ebrahim Raeisi, and the Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.Egypt's presidency issued a statement following the plane crash and the martyrdom of Iran's president and Foreign Minister along with a group of their associates.

The statement said, "Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the president of Egypt, sincerely condoles the death of the president and Foreign Minister of Iran to the nation of this country".

It should be noted that the authorities of various countries in the region and the world have expressed their condolences for the martyrdom of the president, the Foreign Minister, and some of their companions.

A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed in a dense forest area in East Azarbaijan on Sunday.

The helicopter's passengers, including Ebrahim Raeisi, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's East Azerbaijan Province Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution to East Azarbaijan Province, along with several other people were martyred in the incident.

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