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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi missing in helicopter crash as frantic rescue mission is launched - hours after posing for pictures with Azerbaijan's leader
UK Daily Mail ^
| May 19 2024
| KAMAL SULTAN
Posted on 05/19/2024 7:31:32 AM PDT by knighthawk
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has been involved in a helicopter crash hours after posing for pictures with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and rescuers are frantically trying to reach the site. The aircraft was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province near Jolfa, around 375 miles northwest of Tehran, when it suffered a 'hard landing', according to Iranian state television.
Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, but had been hampered by the poor weather conditions in the area. There had been heavy rain and fog reported with some wind.
The helicopter was one of a convoy of three and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Friday prayer Imam Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem and other high-ranking officials were also reportedly on the helicopter with the president.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; News/Current Events
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To: norcal joe
Wonder if Minister of Defense was the true target.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:35:33 AM PDT
by
mware
To: mware
Fog is very thick and heavy where they’re searching.....
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:35:53 AM PDT
by
caww
(O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
To: knighthawk
Good riddance.
To: caww
Thanks, caww. Very interesting stream.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:38:39 AM PDT
by
JayGalt
(DEI = Didn’t Earn It)
To: janetjanet998
Very bad weather You're right, the large square white and gray pixels are really bad in that video.
85
posted on
05/19/2024 8:39:46 AM PDT
by
vrwc1
To: chrisinoc
“Azerbaijan has friendly relations with Israel.”
Armenia is right there too.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:40:13 AM PDT
by
ryderann
To: FrankRizzo890
Did it really crash - or did he duck out into one of Iran’s nuclear test facilities in the mountains. A fake death, in other words.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:41:04 AM PDT
by
meyer
("When, in the course of human events,....")
To: Georgia Girl 2
Had a classmate who died in a friendly fire chopper crash in Nam. His funeral was closed casket.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:41:10 AM PDT
by
mware
To: knighthawk
Our Israeli friends, perhaps “thanking” Iran for the April 14 drone attack?
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:41:39 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
To: Enterprise; mware
Another photo of Raisi's replacement.
To: norcal joe
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi is a hard- liner....hand in glove with Supreme Leader Khomeini......expected one day to take Komeini's place
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:42:11 AM PDT
by
caww
(O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
To: JayGalt
Yes.....I check that site when anything happens over there as I want to know what they’re telling their people
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:43:36 AM PDT
by
caww
(O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
To: mware
I worked with a former cobra pilot who survived two hard landings in Nam. In the second one his cop pilots head ended up in his lap.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:44:21 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: caww
USmedia is way behind on this story. Damn.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:44:42 AM PDT
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mware
To: marcusmaximus
Hey wait. That’s Buddy Hackett!
To: marcusmaximus
To: knighthawk
To: JayGalt
That is the core of the regime’s leadership. These were the guys who implemented the policies that empowered Hamas and the Houthis. If in fact they are all dead, there will be a power struggle coming which may result in the weakening of the theocracy. The mullahs may be vulnerable. Too bad the Biden cabal has power and will do nothing to aid the Iranian people.
To: knighthawk
Does Boeing make choppers? LOL
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:51:42 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
To: allendale
The Iranian people are suffering greatly. Maybe they will be able to take advantage of this opportunity.
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posted on
05/19/2024 8:51:58 AM PDT
by
JayGalt
(DEI = Didn’t Earn It)
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