Israel has said it had nothing to do with the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday evening.
A government official in Jerusalem told Reuters that “it wasn’t us” in a statement.
Israel is at war with Iran-backed Hamas and other proxies in the Middle East and directly attacked Iran for the first time following a drone and missile barrage about a month ago.
Iran’s supreme leader has described the crash that killed Raisi as an “unfortunate incident that occurred while he was performing official duties”.
A helicopter carrying the two senior Iranian officials was on its way back from a dam opening ceremony in Azerbaijan when it crashed in foggy conditions in a mountainous region on the border between the two countries.
Iran has a long history of aviation crashes, some of which have killed top government and military officials. But there has already been speculation about Israeli involvement on Iranian state television.
