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Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details

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  1. Ubiquitin

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    #1 Ubiquitin, May 19, 2024
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    Also given it is news from Iran take everything with a grain of salt until more details emerge. It is just as likely a nothing burger.
     
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    Israel's fault? Time for a ME war
     
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    Wikipedia says

    On 19 May 2024, a Bell 412 helicopter crashed in Varzaqan, Iran, while en route to Tabriz.[1] The helicopter was carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, governor of East Azerbaijan Malek Rahmati, and Supreme Leader representative in East Azerbaijan Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem. The condition of the passengers has not been disclosed, and the location of the helicopter is unknown.​

    The incident took place while Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province, near the city of Jolfa, situated on the border with Azerbaijan.[2][3]Iranian TV reports that rescue operations are encountering difficulties due to the dense forest terrain, compounded by adverse weather conditions such as heavy rain, fog, and strong winds.[2] To aid in the search for the helicopter, drones, search-and-rescue teams, and specially trained dogs have been mobilized.[4]​
     
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    https://newlinesmag.com/argument/how-irans-hanging-judge-became-president/

    How Iran’s Hanging Judge Became President
    Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s power politics led to the rise of the most blood-soaked Iranian presidency since 1979

    The 19-year-old Raisi was one of the 70 clerics. What he lacked in charisma or worldly knowledge, he made up for in steely determination and capacity for brutality. In his first assignment he was sent to help set up revolutionary courts in Masjed Soleiman in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, dominated by the communist-aligned oil workers who had helped the revolution but were now brutally suppressed. He then briefly served in an “ideological education” center for the regime cadre in northeastern Shahrood before being appointed, in 1980, as the top prosecutor for the city of Karaj, an industrial suburb of Tehran. Shortly thereafter, while keeping the job in Karaj, he also got the top prosecutor job in Hamedan.

    The first decade of the revolution was its most brutal, and much violence was meted out by the Judiciary. Thousands of political opponents (nationalists, Islamists, communists) were executed, and you could go to jail for owning a VCR, a violin, or a set of playing cards or for wearing a short-sleeved shirt or a loose veil. The ultimate system loyalist, Raisi was just the right man for enforcing such brutalities and rising through the ranks. In 1985, he was appointed Tehran’s deputy prosecutor. In the summer of 1988, he was one of the four people on the infamous Panel of Death that sent thousands of political prisoners to their abrupt deaths, even those who had already served most of their sentences. An order by Khomeini had been enough for this grave crime against humanity to be executed in a matter of weeks.
     
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    There’s video
     
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    Pronouns are was/were.

    Not Mossad.

    Just bad weather.
     
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    Is it bad my first thought when I read the headline was of the untimely loss of Kobe Bryant and his daughter?
     
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    Mossad controls the weather with their space lasers.
     
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    Helicopter suffers a "hard landing"

    Translation: It crashed into a mountain.
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    Pilot could have suicided.

    This could turn out really bad for the middle east.
     
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    No. There was also the Thai billionaire owner of a British soccer club...was it West Ham? I forgot which one.

    I don't think I am keen to get into a helicopter anytime soon.
     
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    Hopefully he's dead ...yes I said it Andre ! You Mfer
    :D next up is the unholy Radical Islam plus woke side blaming Israel/USA/Trump/the prophecy of Christ vs those that oppose Israel/country music/ etc . . .
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna152961
     
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    Azerbaijan's relations with the Zionist entity increase suspicions that the event was a hostile act
     
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    Ive read thst they had a lot of trouble locating the wreckage. Apparently they even lost 3 of the rescuers for a little while and had to search for them.

    Ive also read that Iranian media is talking about him now exclusively in the past tense at this point, so the assumption seems to be he's dead.

    Rasei's nickname from the Revolution was "The Butcher of Tehran", so good riddance.
     
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    Another dumb low iq post by you. Will you ever be right about anything in life? The Iranian Supreme leader holds the power. The president is just for domestic purposes.

    It fascinates me how the dumbest people on these forums cosplay as intelligent
     
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    Raisi was in line to potentially to be the next Supreme ruler.

    You obviously know nothing about power vacuums. Now go run along and be rude elsewhere, child
     
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