Iran’s Interim President Mohammad Mokhber has appointed Ali Bagheri Kani as the country’s caretaker Foreign Minister, the media reported. Bagheri Kani previously served as Deputy Foreign Minister For Political Affairs, Xinhua news agency reported.

His appointment follows the deaths of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, President Ebrahim Raisi, and other senior officials in a helicopter crash in the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan on Sunday, the report said.