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Open this photo in gallery: Rescue team members work at the crash site of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan, in northwestern Iran, on May 20.AZIN HAGHIGHI/AFP/Getty Images Dennis Horak was Canada’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Yemen from 2015 to 2018 and chargé d’affaires in Iran from 2009 to 2012. The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Sunday comes at a time of lingering internal unrest in the country, and great tension and instability in the wider region – much of which features Iran’s fingerprints. The government has been hostile toward...