Posted on 05/20/2024 2:44:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Iranian strongman Ebrahim Raisi — aka "the butcher of Tehran" — is dead in a Sunday helicopter crash that his countrymen and women are celebrating, so now would be the perfect time for the New York Times to avoid interviewing the Iranian dissident he tried to have assassinated.
Wait, what?
Raisi was "elected" president in 2021 after decades of coming up through the bloody ranks of Iran's hardcore Shiite Muslim theocracy. He earned the "butcher" moniker for his part on the 1988 "death committee" that quickly sentenced more than 5,000 dissidents to death — and just as quickly had them killed. Dissidents reckon that Raisi is directly responsible for the deaths of around 30,000 Iranians.
Masih Alinejad is a 47-year-old Iranian-born American journalist who has spent the last 20-plus years reporting on Iran's endless human rights abuses, particularly against women. The regime has tried to kill her on multiple occasions, the most recent in 2022. She also avoided a kidnapping plot in 2021.
Farnaz Fassihi is another Iranian-American journalist, but it would be fair to call her a "regime lackey" instead. She's the New York Times United Nations bureau chief and also writes about Iran. As such, whatever else the New York Times reports on Raisi's death, Fassihi doesn't want anyone speaking to Alinejad about it — and she was caught on audio posted to X (formerly Twitter).
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LOL!
The odd thing is there were 3 choppers and only the one with the butcher crashed. The other two completed the journey without incident. Things that make one go hmmm.
I just hope he had time to be AFRAID before he croaked!
Nothing like seeing it coming and knowing there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
“Mossad and others just might cease searching for you,”
The only consistent scenario with the intelligence world is that nothing is secret, at least not to them. The only people out of the loop is the general public for their own good. They are not smart enough, armed enough, and don’t have the conections to stay out of mischief. This is why they are so often kept in the dark. Believe me, Mossad already knows...so does our intel people in the US. It’s just you and I that don’t...maybe. So it opens up options for them outside of our knowledge and many times expertise. Keeps them one step ahead standing at the corral gate.
wy69
“Mossad and others just might cease searching for you,”
The only consistent scenario with the intelligence world is that nothing is secret, at least not to them. The only people out of the loop is the general public for their own good. They are not smart enough, armed enough, and don’t have the conections to stay out of mischief. This is why they are so often kept in the dark. Believe me, Mossad already knows...so does our intel people in the US. It’s just you and I that don’t...maybe. So it opens up options for them outside of our knowledge and many times expertise. Keeps them one step ahead standing at the corral gate.
wy69
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