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2024-05-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Raeisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian titzup in helicopter crash

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Posted by badanov 2024-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [723 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Good riddance. Hopefully the Persian people will take the opportunity to rid themselves of tyranny.

Posted by Nero 2024-05-20 00:31|| 2024-05-20 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian confirmed dead along with Iranian President Raisi after their helicopter crashed.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-20 00:34|| 2024-05-20 00:34|| Front Page Top

#3 He’s dead Jim!

Ok, someone had to say it ;-)

Posted by Remoteman 2024-05-20 01:54|| 2024-05-20 01:54|| Front Page Top

#4 My thoughts are with the
@washingtonpost
obituary team in this difficult time as they fiercely debate whether to call Ebrahim Raisi an “austere religious scholar”, a “patriotic anti-Zionist leader” or a “zealous anti-corruption crusader”.

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 01:56|| 2024-05-20 01:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The heart bleeds.

[urp!]

Or maybe it's the chili.

Posted by Fred 2024-05-20 02:03|| 2024-05-20 02:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Celebratory dance:

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-05-20 02:46|| 2024-05-20 02:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Combat botany?

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-05-20 03:25|| 2024-05-20 03:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #6: Tchaikovsky's indelible score finds it's way to the Burg.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-20 03:34|| 2024-05-20 03:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Best news of the day. So far.
An aside: I used to name some of my combat characters TITZUP. This got me in a lot of trouble with the pendants/pedagogues who read into the name too much.
Screw all PC bastards.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-05-20 04:11|| 2024-05-20 04:11|| Front Page Top

#10 ....To quote the Munchkin Coroner, "Not only simply merely dead, but truly most sincerely dead."

And FWIW, there's a wonderful T-shirt that popped up in the last 24 hours - shows a wrecked helicopter and it says, "MOSSAD: It's Never An Accident".

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-05-20 05:58|| 2024-05-20 05:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Israeli official: Israel not involved in Raisi's death

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 06:15|| 2024-05-20 06:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Who is Iran's new acting president - Mohammad Mokhber? - explained

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 06:17|| 2024-05-20 06:17|| Front Page Top

#13 @#12 — like America Valarie Jarrett

Posted by Airandee 2024-05-20 06:46|| 2024-05-20 06:46|| Front Page Top

#14 I'd like to nominate that mountain for this year's Nobel Peace Price.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-05-20 07:51|| 2024-05-20 07:51|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Early SOTD candidate

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-20 07:59|| 2024-05-20 07:59|| Front Page Top

#16 mountains in that area of Iran get pretty high, over 12k'

anybody know the elevation of the crash site?

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-05-20 08:18|| 2024-05-20 08:18|| Front Page Top

#17 anybody know the elevation of the crash site?

Fairly lush vegetation that I saw on the video and the people carrying down the bodies, so not super high is my guess.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-20 08:32|| 2024-05-20 08:32|| Front Page Top

#18 mountains in that area of Iran get pretty high, over 12k'

You mean feet?

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 08:50|| 2024-05-20 08:50|| Front Page Top

#19 Raisins for everybody!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-05-20 09:09|| 2024-05-20 09:09|| Front Page Top

#20 anybody know the elevation of the crash site?

High enough.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-20 09:18|| 2024-05-20 09:18|| Front Page Top

#21 Some good news to start the week

Posted by Chantry 2024-05-20 09:21|| 2024-05-20 09:21|| Front Page Top

#22 When the mountains go high the turbans go low.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-05-20 09:23|| 2024-05-20 09:23|| Front Page Top

#23 10s of thousands to late!

Posted by Chesney+Sleting4519 2024-05-20 09:58|| 2024-05-20 09:58|| Front Page Top

#24 there's a wonderful T-shirt
...and hats"

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-20 10:57|| 2024-05-20 10:57|| Front Page Top

#25 EU Rushes to Send Condolences to Iran After ‘Butcher of Tehran’ President Raisi Killed in Helicopter Crash

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-20 11:23|| 2024-05-20 11:23|| Front Page Top

#26 That's a misunderstanding. The condolences went to the helicopter.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-05-20 13:28|| 2024-05-20 13:28|| Front Page Top

#27 So Boeing makes helicopters too, eh?

Posted by SteveS 2024-05-20 14:35|| 2024-05-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

#28 ^BOEING BLASTED FOR PRIORITIZING RACIAL QUOTAS OVER PERFORMANCE AND SAFETY

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 14:43|| 2024-05-20 14:43|| Front Page Top

#29 Rescuers recover bodies from Iran President Raisi’s helicopter crash site

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-20 16:34|| 2024-05-20 16:34|| Front Page Top

#30 Bell 212, not Boeing.

Maps show where Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter was found

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-20 16:40|| 2024-05-20 16:40|| Front Page Top

#31 The funeral should be a target rich environment...

Posted by European Conservative 2024-05-20 17:15|| 2024-05-20 17:15|| Front Page Top

#32 based on Map in WaPo, I'm estimating 8,000 to 10,000'

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-05-20 17:16|| 2024-05-20 17:16|| Front Page Top

#33 "Kobe's pilot's notes says we're good"

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-20 19:10|| 2024-05-20 19:10|| Front Page Top

#34 God put the mountain there on purpose!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-05-20 19:56|| 2024-05-20 19:56|| Front Page Top

#35 But did he have a Qom to Jesus moment?

Posted by Marilyn+Thronter5744 2024-05-20 20:00|| 2024-05-20 20:00|| Front Page Top

#36 ^ Nice poke

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-20 21:19|| 2024-05-20 21:19|| Front Page Top

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