Posted on 05/19/2024 10:27:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
News broke a few hours ago that the helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, has crashed in the mountainous, wooded terrain of Eastern Azerbaijan, with a search ongoing for the crash site.
Sometimes bad things happen, but when the President of Iran’s helicopter crashes, and his foreign minister was on the copter, too, one wonders if its more than coincidence. People are already wondering whether this was an accident or something more.
It’s no secret that Iran is a worldwide state funder of terrorism. Along with Qatar, it’s the money behind both Hezbollah and Hamas, which are fighting Israel from the East and the North. Violence in the Middle East would be dramatically diminished if Iran’s bankroll were cut off. The same is true for the military support it provides in terms of weapons, training, and strategy.
But it’s not just Israel that’s a target of Iranian malevolence. Since 1979, Iran’s battle cry has been “Death to America.” The official government policy is that it is in an existential war with the United States. Israel is the “Little Satan,” while America is the “Great Satan.
For forty-five years, the Iranian people, once the most sophisticated, successful Muslim people in the world, have been laboring under the Mullahs’ fanatic yoke. And when I say “fanatic,” I mean that.
The Shia faith is an apocalyptic faith that waits for the return of the hidden or missing Imam:
The Shia call all the male descendants of the Prophet Muhammad “imams” and ascribe to them a quasi-divine status.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Hussein, who was killed at Karbala by Yazid, was the third Imam. His son and grandson were the fourth and fifth. At the end of this line, there is the “Twelfth Imam,” who is named Muhammad.
Some call him the Mahdi (the “divinely guided one”). He was born in 869, the only son of the eleventh Imam. In 874, he disappeared without a trace, thereby bringing Muhammad’s lineage to a close. In Shia mythology, however, the Twelfth Imam survived. The Shia believe that he merely withdrew from public view when he was five and that he will emerge from his “occultation” in order to liberate the world from evil.
According to Shia tradition, legitimate Islamic rule can only be established following the twelfth imam’s reappearance.
Khomeini, however, had no intention of waiting. He vested the myth with an entirely new sense: The Twelfth Imam will emerge only when the believers have vanquished evil. To speed up the Mahdi’s return, Muslims had to shake off their torpor and fight.
I’d bet on typical shoddy ME maintenance.
Pull!
I’ll take the Mossad for $500 Alex. 😏
Spike the well in Qom with a neutron bomb
Yeah, but, MOSSAD!
Perhaps a warning and judgment from God.
Bad weather. I read that Iran’s helicopters are from the 70’s, so not modern. Map shows “landing” at or near a mountaintop ridge. There is a claim that “crash” survivors called in but no word on the leader which seems strange. Maybe those calls were from the escort copters. I wonder where those copters are as landing anywhere nearby didn’t look feasible.
Someone said on another thread that most of the helicopters in Iran date back to before the ayatollahs took over.
I’ll go with D...All of the above.
“Or perhaps vehicular stress and shoddy maintenance.
Someone said on another thread that most of the helicopters in Iran date back to before the ayatollahs took over.”
Yes, they are old. Could have been a weight and balance mistake as well. Didn’t make it over a high ridge.
Did they get the helicopter, or it’s parts from China?
First Fico Now This.
I’m sure it was just the will of allah that they should crash burn and arrive in hell as quickly as possible
I am going with the first choice with the assistance on the ground by the third.
It is the will of Allah.
DEI pilot.
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