In a message on Wednesday, the Iranian president expressed his condolences to President Ilham Aliyev and people of the Republic of Azerbaijan over the death of a number of Azerbaijani citizens in the plane crash.
According to media reports on Wednesday, an Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 62 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the Kazakh Caspian city of Aktau.
As many as 25 survived as Flight 8432 crashed on its way from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region
MNA