Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash, an Iranian official and Mehr news agency reported on Monday. Below is a brief outline of what Iran's constitution says happens when a president is incapacitated or dies in office:

A helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, the country&s foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran yesterday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner long seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said on Monday.

An Israeli airstrike killed 27 people in central Gaza and fighting with Hamas raged across the north yesterday as Israel&s leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war, now in its eighth month.