Acting Iranian president creates 6 special committees to temporarily govern country

Iran’s acting president, First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, has created six special committees to govern the country in the coming days, spokesman for the Iranian government, Ali Bahadori-Jahromi said, Report informs referring to IRNA.

He noted that the committees were formed on May 19, when it became known that a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and other officials had crashed.

Jahromi stressed that acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has been appointed head of the Foreign Policy Committee.

The helicopter carrying Raisi made a hard landing near the city of Varzeqan not far from the Iran-Azerbaijan border. All passengers and crew of the presidential helicopter died in the crash.