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Iran's president killed in a helicopter crash.
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Now, today's story, the funeral of the.
President of Iran, Ibrahim Raisi, is taking place after he was killed in a helicopter crash.
The accident happened in bad weather in a mountainous region in the northwest of the country.
Thousands have mourned him in the streets, but his death has also been celebrated by his critics on social media.
Raisi's record on human rights has been heavily criticized.
You've been looking at the headlines.
What's the vocabulary that people need to understand this new story?
In English, we have furtive, reverberate and condolences.
This is news review from BBC learning English.
Let's have our first headline.
This is from Reuters.
In divided Iran, president's death met by muted mourning and furtive celebration.
So this headline says that Iran is divided.
On the one hand, there is mourning.