Sounds like a down-to-earth guy.

Now the Russians…

“Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi is feared dead after the helicopter crash near the border with Azerbaijan Sunday put his ‘life at risk’, officials confirmed.

It comes as state media claimed that allied Russia is sending a 50-man specialist mountain rescue unit to assist the search. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed it in a Telegram post. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13436469

https://apnews.com/article/ira...9cfb0fe00c7349d023b8

Early Monday morning, Turkish authorities released what they described as drone footage showing what appeared to be a fire in the wilderness that they “suspected to be wreckage of helicopter.” The coordinates listed in the footage put the fire some 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border on the side of a steep mountain.

adding:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...distance/ar-BB1mGro3

As the sun rose Monday, rescuers saw the helicopter from a distance of some 2 kilometers (1.25 miles), the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, told state media. He did not elaborate and the officials had been missing at that point by over 12 hours.

It's a shame the Ayatollah wasn't flying with him.

Typical "Rough landing" in a chopper

No survivors found at crash site

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast...ter-crash/index.html

Good

quote:

I speak Persian, it says:

“The body is cold. All bodies are cold”

“The cabin is completely burnt.”

https://x.com/Seppchik/status/1792386220212764843

quote:

Originally posted by 12131:
[Seinfeld]That's a shame.[/Seinfeld]

The seinfeld connection just made me giggle out loud. GOL

wonder if the pilot had a "Kobe Bryant's pilot" type situation with the fog, hills, getting confused about things, etc....

How does one say FAFO in Hebrew?

Gravity does it again.

It’s been a great Sunday

quote:

Originally posted by PASig:
How does one say FAFO in Hebrew?

עכשיו אתה יודע

This is the best news I've heard in quite a while! Karma's a bitch...

Well... Bye.

“If Allah wills, it will happen, in His own time, at the right moment, for the best reason.“

'As a young student at a religious seminary in the holy city of Qom, Raisi took part in protests against the Western-backed Shah in the 1979 revolution.

His contacts with religious leaders in Qom made him a trusted figure in the judiciary, and he became Iran's deputy prosecutor aged just 25.

Raisi quickly worked his way to the top - and in doing so earned himself the moniker 'the Butcher of Tehran'.

As deputy prosecutor and subsequently chief prosecutor, Raisi stood on the so-called 'death committee' - a group of four judges who presided over tribunals in 1988 that were assembled to 're-try' the regimes political prisoners.

Thousands of these prisoners were ruthlessly executed and dumped in unmarked graves. The exact number of deaths is not known but rights groups estimate roughly 5,000 people were killed following Raisi's brutal judgement.

Not only was Raisi loyal to the Republic and its Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, but throughout the 1980s he had developed a close relationship with the then-president of Iran, Ali Khamenei.'

With his penchant for mass executions, he's not exactly going to be missed by many 'normal' Iranians, who are just trying to live their lives.

Perhaps a Mossad GPS/altimeter recalibration.