Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-line diplomat, dies in helicopter crash

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 U.S. over the country’s nuclear program, has died. State media said Monday that he died in the helicopter crash Sunday that also killed the country’s president. Amirabdollahian represented the hard-line shift in Iran after the collapse of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers after then-U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord. He served under President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and followed their policies. Amirabdollahian was 60.