A Tyrant Who Threatened Israel With Annihilation: Was Raisi’s Death An Act Of God?

Harbingers Daily ^ | 5/20/24 | Cookie Schwaeber-Issan

[Roman_War_Criminal]

It really makes you wonder when you look back at Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s statement of April 23rd, less than a month ago, as he threatened Israel with annihilation. It was during a visit to Pakistan that Raisi referred to Israel as the “Zionist regime,” whose destruction he promised if they would dare to attack Iran.

Because when thinking about the Biblical accounts of cause and effect, it’s only natural to make the comparison of someone who, after threatening the Jews, ended up hanging on his own gallows. But who was Ebrahim Raisi, and is it possible to connect his sudden and unexpected demise to a sovereign act of God – even in the year 2024?

At age 63, Raisi, whose full name was Raisolsadati, was the son-in-law of a prominent Imam. He became Iran’s eighth president in 2021. As a prosecutor and Deputy Chief Justice of Iran, he rose to prominence as the country’s president when appointed by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Earning for himself a fearsome reputation, he was labeled “The Butcher of Tehran,” “responsible for the execution of thousands of political prisoners, accused of crimes against humanity by international human rights organizations and United Nations special rapporteurs.”

You’d be hard-pressed to find an individual who was more of a hardliner in Iranian politics than Raisi, and, perhaps, that accounts for the remark made by IDF Intelligence Chief Major General Tamir Hayman who commented, upon hearing his demise, that “it would be hard to find someone worse.”

[SunkenCiv]

They were up in bad weather over a mountainous terrain. Also Iran’s leader visiting Azerbaijan isn’t commonplace. Probably just an oopsie, rather than an act of jihad by the pilot.

[gleeaikin]

I think a big reason the jewish population is small results from the fact that to be truly Jewish, your mother had to be a Jew. Most other religions grow by conversion or conquest. I’m not aware of any significant period when Jews were welcoming converts, and for the past 2,000 years they have not done much in the way of conquest. Mohammed had some conflicts with Jews, but I think he mostly won. Also, both Islam and Christianity have been aggressive with conquest and conversion.

And, yes, they have been treated cruelly for many centuries—Russian pogroms, Spanish conversion or expulsion, Nazi genocide, US and British prejudice and legal barriers. This just a sample, and that is all since the fall of Rome whose rulers got in their own wacks like Masada.

[Gen.Blather]

As a culture there are two, I can think of offhand who, person per person by any metric punch well above their weight. The first is the Jewish culture. Lay out all the Nobel Prizes by culture and I’ll bet Jews outnumber or at least equal the other cultures combined. If you see a Muslim, like Yassar, it was a political gift and not a contribution to mankind.

The second is the Druze. But corner a Druze and you’ll quickly discover that for all practical purposes they’re more culturally Jewish than anything else. Their actual religion and beliefs are practically secret, and I think that’s because they live amongst...uhm, culturally hostile, cruel animals who are so culturally different they might as well be from Klingon territory. Fortunately for the Druze the people they live amongst are so disinterested in learning about their neighbors that the Druze are able to walk amongst them like the Star Trek Federation people can walk around on a Borg ship as long as they aren’t perceived as a danger.