I don’t know, waiting for some kind of confirmation. However, fireworks went off in Iran yesterday when news came of the crash. Situation in Iran more complicated than we get to hear in our msm world news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSBccVO5qY
Above link to a YouTube clip by Amir Tarfati where he discusses the death of the president. Also mentions how quickly Israel will be blamed. Yesterday a joke circulated on Israeli social media outlets: “there was a Mossad agent in the president’s entourage. His name was Eli Copter.” This joke was picked up by Hamas related commenters who thought it was for real and eventually it has spread to Iran’s news agency.
Bell 212s are in use by Canada Coast Guard,US police in Calif, Thai police and others. They were mostly at this point built in Canada.
So the Iranians flying them does not speak to any obsolescence.
Is that anything like “Elle” in ?Deep Impact”? Which turned out to be an acronym, “ELE”, for “Extinction Level Event”.