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2024-05-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Technical failure' caused Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash
[GEO.TV] As Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
mourns the unfortunate death of its president, Ebrahim Raisi — a potential successor to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
, in a helicopter crash on Sunday, the state-run Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) has reported that the chopper faced an accident due to "technical failure".
i.e.: Its elevation was lower than the ground
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Friday Prayer leader of the city of Tabriz Mohammad Ali al-e Hashem and others including pilots and flight crew also died when the ill-fated aircraft crashed in mountain terrain amid poor weather on its way back from the East Azerbaijan province.

All passengers, including Raisi, were declared dead when charred wreckage of the Bell 212 helicopter was found early on Monday after an overnight search in blizzard conditions.

The funeral procession for President Raisi will be held in Tehran on Tuesday.

Khamenei, who holds ultimate power with a final say on foreign policy and Iran's nuclear programme, announced a five-day mourning period while naming Iran’s First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber as interim president and directing him to ensure the election of a new president within 50 days, as per the country’s constitution.

Though the crash came at a time of growing dissent within Iran over an array of political, social and economic crises, with Iran's holy manal rulers facing international pressure over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme and heightening tensions with Israel in the backdrop of war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, any indication of foul play was ruled out by Iran’s state TV.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
has held the United States responsible for Raisi’s death and "his entourage because of its sanctions on the country’s aviation industry".

"The Iranian nation has faced great events in these 45 years, and according to the Supreme Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution
...Iran's doddering head theocrat...
, they will overcome this tragic event," the state-TV quoted Zarif as saying
Posted by Fred 2024-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Iran declares five days of mourning as Raisi's funeral begins
Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-21 07:48||   2024-05-21 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Black market Boeing parts?
Posted by Lionel Uluck7609 2024-05-21 08:31||   2024-05-21 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 FOX: UN holds moment of silence for ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Raisi after Iranian president dies in helicopter crash. US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood was seen standing during the moment of silence to honor Raisi

Beyond disgusting.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-21 09:07||   2024-05-21 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 An inadvertent high energy interface with the ground.
Posted by Deacon+Blues 2024-05-21 09:35||   2024-05-21 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Who had "multiple government official die in helicopter crash by suicide"? Anyone? Anyone?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2024-05-21 10:24||   2024-05-21 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Unscheduled layover.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-21 10:34||   2024-05-21 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 The 1981 Panamanian Air Force Twin Otter crash occurred on July 31, 1981, when a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter of the Panamanian Air Force, with identity code FAP-205, crashed at Marta Hill, in the community of Coclesito, in adverse weather conditions while on its final approach to the airport. All seven people on board, including General Omar Torrijos Herrera, who led the country's military dictatorship between 1968 and 1981, were killed.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-21 10:40||   2024-05-21 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 

Hillary must be doing consulting work in Iran.
🤫
Posted by NN2N1 2024-05-21 11:11||   2024-05-21 11:11|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Ron Brown could not be reached for comment
Posted by Beavis 2024-05-21 11:20||   2024-05-21 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Following the traditional Dag Hammarskjöld flight plan?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-05-21 13:24||   2024-05-21 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Dag Hammarskjold, a name and events from the past that we might be wise to take under study.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-21 15:53||   2024-05-21 15:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Dag Hammarskjold, a name and events from the past that we might be wise to take under study.

That story seems to have a lot of moving parts.
1961 Ndola Transair Sweden DC-6 crash

More on his life at Wikipedia
Posted by SteveS 2024-05-21 19:37||   2024-05-21 19:37|| Front Page Top

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