Iran’s Prime Minister killed in a helicopter crash due to “bad weather.” How credible is this claim?

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By the time this article will be published, I am assuming that the entire world is aware that the Iranian Prime Minister, Ebrahim Raisi, on the 19th of May 2024, has died alongside the country’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian. They both perished when the helicopter carrying them crashed in the mountainous and forested area of Tavil, Iran, as they were returning from Azerbaijan, where they and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had inaugurated a cooperative dam project.

Now as a critical thinker, I won’t simply accept the mainstream media’s explanation. Instead, I have conducted my own research with the little means that I have to consider alternative possibilities to understand what might have gone wrong there as the weather was “maussade” (as we often say in French to describe a cloudy and rainy weather) on that particular day.

The crash site

From what we know so far, the crash zone was located with the help of a Turkish drone. According to the information I have gathered online, the crash site is located approximately near the village of Tavil in the Central District of Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, with the GPS coordinates of 38°46'04.1"N 46°41'33.0"E as shown in the Google Maps…