Israel National News reports: “Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States is at fault for the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Sunday.

Talking to Iranian state media, the former minister blamed US sanctions for the crash: ‘One of the causes of this heartbreaking incident is the United States, which by embargoing the sale of the aviation parts to Islamic Iran caused the martyrdom of the president and his companions.’

He added that ‘the crime of the United States will definitely be recorded in the minds of the Iranian people and in history.’