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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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Originally posted by mike28w:
My only questions is : Was it US, Israel, or Iran ??
Hard to predict that one....

If it was a crash, I bet gravity and the planet were both involved.

Failure to respect the earth/sky interface.

Good riddance to rubbish.

Israel: "it wasn't us."

By Landon Mion | Fox News
Published May 19, 2024 11:44pm EDT | Updated May 20, 2024 7:26am EDT

Iran's controversial President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials were confirmed dead on Monday after their helicopter crashed in a mountainous region of the country’s northwest, Iranian state media reported.

The death of Raisi, nicknamed the "Butcher of Tehran" for his oversight of mass executions of political prisoners in 1988, forced Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to install interim leadership for Iran's executive branch. An Israeli official denied to Reuters the country had any involvement in the deadly crash, saying, bluntly, "it wasn't us."

Iran for years has backed the terror group Hamas, currently engaged in its monthslong war with Israel.

Iranian State TV said earlier Monday that there was "no sign of life" at the crash site of the helicopter that was carrying 63-year-old Raisi, 60-year-old Abdollahian and other officials after it made a "hard landing" on Sunday.

The crash site was across a steep valley, according to state media, which gave no immediate cause for the crash.

As the sun rose on Monday, rescuers saw the helicopter from a distance of roughly 1.25 miles, head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society Pir Hossein Kolivand told state media. The officials had been missing for more than 12 hours when the helicopter was observed.

Raisi and Amir-Abdollahian were traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province when the helicopter made what state TV described as a "hard landing" near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, roughly 375 miles northwest of Tehran. State TV later said it crashed further east near the village of Uzi, although details remained contradictory.

The governor of the East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards were also aboard, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. One local government official described what happened as a "crash," while others referred to it as a "hard landing" or an "incident."

"The esteemed president and company were on their way back aboard some helicopters and one of the helicopters was forced to make a hard landing due to the bad weather and fog," Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in comments aired on state TV.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei later confirmed First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber as interim head of the country's executive branch following the crash.

The incident comes as Iran, under Raisi and Khamenei, launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack against Israel last month.

Iran has also faced years of mass protests against its Shiite theocracy in response to a struggling economy and attacks on women's rights.

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

עכשיו אתה יודע

I want this on a T-shirt!

Thanks for your informative post at the bottom of page 3 tac.

Raisi deserved a grim death. I hope he suffered greatly.

Iran's Mehr news agency confirmed the deaths, reporting that "all passengers of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president and foreign minister were martyred".

The fact they use the word "marytyred" suggests they might suspect an outside agent. Hmmmm

Or at least want that to be the narrative.

I wonder where they were going? They were nearly out of the country.

“Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has declared the nation will observe five days of mourning following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a devastating helicopter crash in the mountainous northwest of the country yesterday.

But there are plenty of Iranians who are instead celebrating the unexpected death of the president, who has earned a reputation as a brutal, hardline executor of Khamenei's will.

The daughters of Minoo Majidi - a 62-year-old Iranian woman who was one of hundreds of people shot dead by security services during the nationwide fallout following the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 - shared a video to social media raising a glass to the president's demise.

That clip was followed swiftly by two more Iranian women, Mersedeh Shahinkar and Sima Moradbeigi, dancing and smiling in response to the news Raisi's helicopter had plunged into the mountainside.

Shahinkar was blinded by the security forces' brutality amid the 2022 protests, while Moradbeigi lost the use of one of her arms after an armed guard blasted her elbow apart from point-blank range. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13438055

Well , they didn't lie . It was definitely a " hard landing " .

The only real shame here is the loss of that wonderful 212.

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“Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has declared the nation will observe five days of mourning ...

A collective response to a collective non-response.

It looks like the people of Iran are openly celebrating this asshole’s death with fireworks and other means.

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Iran's Mehr news agency confirmed the deaths, reporting that "all passengers of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president and foreign minister were martyred".

The fact they use the word "marytyred" suggests they might suspect an outside agent. Hmmmm

They want to believe that...these guys are world-wide pariahs, their economy in the toilet but they're hell-bent on developing a nuclear weapon and their president is flying around in a helo built in 1979.

All indications are nobody is missing this guy, the Israelis, Saudis, Egyptians probably the Turks too are all smiling amongst themselves.

I wonder what the last thing was that went through his mind..?

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Originally posted by raggedhole:
I wonder what the last thing was that went through his mind..?

most likely his asshole

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No survivors found at crash site

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

From the picture in the linked article, it appears that they almost cleared the top of that little knoll that they are splattered on, but instead hit it, rolled over upside down and burned. You could say that they “missed clearing that little knoll by that much.” I defer to 12131’s excellent post immediately after the OP.

Oh well, AMF

Brutal commentary

https://x.com/Iran_GOV/status/1792420952112066658

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Originally posted by slosig:
...it appears that they almost cleared the top of that little knoll....

Trying for ground effect, eh?

Well, they got it!

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Brutal commentary
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