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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, 63, is confirmed dead after 'no sign of life' was found at helicopter crash site
Daily Mail ^ | 5/19/24 | David Averre, Andy Dolan, Stephen M. Lepore

Posted on 05/20/2024 1:20:14 AM PDT by Libloather

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Iran helicopter crash LIVE: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi killed after aircraft plummets into mountain range - latest updates

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13437285/ebrahim-raisi-iran-helicopter-crash-live.html


21 posted on 05/20/2024 2:46:38 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Waverunner

Most likely?

Old Bell helicopter, or an Iranian copy.

Maybe should have spent more money on the choppers and less on rockets and missiles for Iranian proxies.


22 posted on 05/20/2024 2:46:53 AM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: Clutch Martin

The Day the Music Died - Iranian style


23 posted on 05/20/2024 2:49:07 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Clutch Martin

Like Kobe Bryant


24 posted on 05/20/2024 2:50:42 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: Paul R.

Kobe Bryant died in a modern up to date helicopter under similar weather conditions. President probably told the pilot fly me home or face the consequences. Karma is.


25 posted on 05/20/2024 2:51:56 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Waverunner

Yea, but Kobe’s helicopter did not get hit with a surface to air missile.


26 posted on 05/20/2024 2:55:03 AM PDT by anton
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To: roving

Some countries have all the luck!


27 posted on 05/20/2024 3:09:47 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Libloather

And the crowd went wild, as the narrator of Rocky And Bullwinkle says.


28 posted on 05/20/2024 3:18:57 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Libloather

OK so now we know what a “hard landing” is.

Now can someone tell me what the status of JFK’s “hard hitting headache” is.


29 posted on 05/20/2024 3:19:47 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: anton

Are you merely speculating, or are you asserting that this actually happened to the Iranian president’s helicopter?


30 posted on 05/20/2024 3:22:01 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: lefty-lie-spy

That was William Conrad by the way.


31 posted on 05/20/2024 3:26:31 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: USAF1985

Sometimes stupidity is a better explanation than conspiracy.


32 posted on 05/20/2024 3:27:49 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Libloather

[The nation’s government held an ‘urgent meeting’ this morning, with Raisi’s chair left vacant and covered in a black sash.]

Has Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama applied for the position yet? It’s one of his pet projects as well.


33 posted on 05/20/2024 3:33:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather

May all 72 of his virgins look like Hillary and Chelsea.


34 posted on 05/20/2024 3:35:47 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Libloather

Do they have a body to confirm? Asking for a friend.


35 posted on 05/20/2024 3:39:37 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Give the Anti-Israel Protesters a one way ticket to fight with Hamas. )
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To: one guy in new jersey

I’m a fan of statistical probability. Out of a few hundred thousand helicopter trips this year, tens of thousands of which were in bad weather, the President of Iran is an unlikely accidental fatality.


36 posted on 05/20/2024 3:40:17 AM PDT by anton
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”I’m a fan of statistical probability.”

When your number’s up, your number is up.’

If the diabolical joos can control the weather and terrain features, maybe the Iranians should stop running their gibbering mullahs.

37 posted on 05/20/2024 3:44:38 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Libloather

What a darned shame.

I wonder if OJ was there to carry his bags on the other side.


38 posted on 05/20/2024 3:50:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Libloather
Did they bellow out allah akbar on the way down like the ragheads that hijack airplanes?
39 posted on 05/20/2024 3:51:08 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Libloather

He made his bones judging, torturing and killing Iranians. Lightly referred to in his post-mortem Western media bios as “ having a reputation for repression”
He led trials after the ‘88 Iran-Iraq war where any political prisoner suspected of disloyalty got a 3 question, 5 minute “ trial” before he decided if they lived or died. Thousands are estimated to have been executed.

Yesterday he faced the real supreme justice of the universe.

https://www.wusf.org/2024-05-20/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-a-hard-liner-who-crushed-dissent-dies-at-63

An excerpt

“Before becoming president in 2021, the ultraconservative had been the head of the judiciary.

A year after assuming the presidency, he ordered a crackdown on women’s dress codes. That led to the arrest of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, whose headscarf had not properly covered her hair, in line with the country’s “hijab and chastity” law. Amini’s death in custody sparked nationwide protests that resulted in hundreds of deaths, according to human rights groups, and were seen as one of the most serious threats to the Islamic regime since it came to power in the 1979 revolution.

Since those protests died down, the regime has recently launched a new crackdown on women’s dress codes, which human rights group Amnesty International has described as a “war on women.”

Raisi was known for his part in 1988 extrajudicial killings

The brutal repression of the protests was not the first time Raisi had been accused of ruthlessly crushing dissent. Rights groups have said that as a young prosecutor in 1988, he sat on what became known as “death committees” which ordered the execution of political prisoners.

Raisi sat on the panel in Tehran, which rights groups say ordered the execution of hundreds of enemies of the Islamic regime: Amnesty International estimates that nationwide, around 5,000 people were put to death.”


40 posted on 05/20/2024 3:58:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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