(FILES) (R to L) Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian receives his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran on June 23, 2022. Iranian media declared President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian dead on May 20, 2024 after their helicopter crashed in a mountainous northwestern region, but there has not yet been any official confirmation. Contact was lost with the aircraft carrying him as well as Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others in East Azerbaijan province on May 19, 2024, reports said. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)