Leaders across the Middle East and beyond are offering their condolences after a helicopter crash killed Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and eight others on Sunday.

Among the dead was Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdullahian.

Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Raisi sent a “message of condolence to the martyr” of the foreign minister and other passengers and crew who died in the crash.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi He wrote to his family and Iran that India stands with Iran at this painful time.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-SudaniX posted his “sincere condolences and sympathies” to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his government. “We express our solidarity with the brotherly Iranian people and our brotherly authorities in the Islamic Republic in this painful tragedy”.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif“Pakistan will observe a day of mourning and the flag will fly at half-mast as a mark of respect to President Raisi and his comrades and in solidarity with brother Iran,” he said.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, He said he was “shocked by the difficult news of the loss of a sensitive body” from Iran's president. Maduro said: “We from Bolivarian countries express our deepest condolences to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and we hope for divine comfort for such emotional losses. We join his relatives and our Iranian brothers in the overwhelming sentiments in these difficult moments.”

Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates “The UAE stands in solidarity with Iran at this difficult time,” it said, sending its deepest condolences to the families of those killed in the crash.

EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Joseph Borrell said: “The European Union expresses its condolences for the deaths of President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ibrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdallahian and Iranian officials involved in Sunday's tragic helicopter crash. “The European Union expresses its condolences to the families of all the victims and to the affected Iranian citizens.

Syrian President Bashar al-AssadSending his condolences to Iran, Raisi “offered to enrich relations with everything beneficial to the Syrian and Iranian people,” state news agency SANA quoted Assad as saying.