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No sign of life' detected at crash site of helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, others, Iran state TV says
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Posted on 05/19/2024 8:03:19 PM PDT by janetjanet998

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To: janetjanet998

John Skerry deeply saddened.


41 posted on 05/19/2024 8:28:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dragnet2

Will Iran try to “get even”?

Maybe that’s how they’ll try to solve the Biden problem.


42 posted on 05/19/2024 8:28:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: janetjanet998

Who knew that Mossad could create heavy fog.


43 posted on 05/19/2024 8:29:46 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: janetjanet998

Has Biden blamed Trump yet?


44 posted on 05/19/2024 8:30:19 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: Gnome1949

Hard landing in Farsi might mean large crater.


45 posted on 05/19/2024 8:30:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: janetjanet998

Why does the media say “feared dead”? Shouldn’t they be saying “encouraged that he me be dead” or “hopefully dead”?


46 posted on 05/19/2024 8:33:01 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: janetjanet998

Tough break for them.


47 posted on 05/19/2024 8:33:57 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Perfect meme you posted! :)
It perfectly reflects what I feel about the situation...


48 posted on 05/19/2024 8:34:50 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (The only thing needed for Evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: seabeeson

If it was Mossad, it will be like Franz Ferdinand for the Middle East.


49 posted on 05/19/2024 8:35:19 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: norcal joe

I’ve seen better quality video of the Martian surface.


50 posted on 05/19/2024 8:38:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Gnome1949

I guess the early reports were (sort of) a translation problem. In the West, a “hard landing” implies a generally survivable event, perhaps an autorotation when talking about helicopters.

Russia uses “Hard landing” where we would use “Crash”. it is thought that the Iranians must have followed a similar wordage in this incident. They quickly switched to “Crash”, apparently when they learned how it was being interpreted.


51 posted on 05/19/2024 8:38:30 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: janetjanet998

Apparently almost all the Iranian helicopters are old and / or have a lot of flight hours on them. Western nations won’t sell them choppers, but I’d think surely Iran could obtain competent machines from Russia. Maybe they should have spent less on rockets and missiles for Hamas and Hezbollah, and more on recent build transportation for their officials?


52 posted on 05/19/2024 8:39:06 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: Reverend Wright

On Al-Jazeera they are already blaming the west for this, since the helicopter had obsolete parts due to the unfair sanctions.


53 posted on 05/19/2024 8:39:39 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: janetjanet998

Welcome to hell! We’ll be descending to the 9th level now…


54 posted on 05/19/2024 8:44:34 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: janetjanet998

Right now the Biden cabal is assembling at least $1 billion in cash for quick transport to Iran. If there is another popular uprising against the mullahs, they mullahs will need hard cash to pay their thugs to beat down the people again. Cash from the Democrats is what saved the mullahs the last time.


55 posted on 05/19/2024 8:48:17 PM PDT by allendale
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To: bray
The really bad news is there were two empty seats.

Right on.

56 posted on 05/19/2024 8:52:42 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: janetjanet998

Commodities futures are rising. Israel needs to prepare for more attacks by fanatics like Hezbollah, even though this crash was an accident. Terrorists don’t care about facts.


57 posted on 05/19/2024 8:53:20 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: janetjanet998

Have they located the four towels yet?

Asking for a friend.....


58 posted on 05/19/2024 8:54:53 PM PDT by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: wetgundog

This doesn’t play out well with their eschatology which says Allah is suppose to win, and the Great Satan States, Israel and the USA are the ones to have helicopters crash. Allah knows best.


59 posted on 05/19/2024 9:00:08 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: janetjanet998

looks like an unplanned encounter with ground


60 posted on 05/19/2024 9:00:59 PM PDT by Swirl
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