(FILES) Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian holds a joint news conference with the Russian Foreign Minister in Moscow, on August 31, 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 MAXIM SHEMETOV / POOL / AFP)