Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union (EU) for foreign affairs and security policy and vice president of the European Commission, on Monday offered his condolences over the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other Iranian officials in a helicopter crash.

"The EU expresses its sympathies to the families of all the victims and to the Iranian citizens affected," he said in a statement.