Posted on 05/21/2024 4:15:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
DUBAI, May 20 (Reuters) - Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other senior figures in the Islamic Republic's 45-year history. While government loyalists packed into mosques and squares to pray for Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, both killed in a helicopter crash, most shops remained open and the authorities made little effort to interrupt ordinary life.
A year after Raisi's hardline government cracked down violently to end the biggest anti-establishment demonstrations since the 1979 revolution, opponents even posted furtive video online of people passing out sweets to celebrate his death.
Laila, a 21-year-old student in Tehran, told Reuters by phone that she was not saddened by Raisi's death, "because he ordered the crackdown on women for hijab." "But I am sad because even with Raisi's death this regime will not change," she said.
Rights groups say hundreds of Iranians died in 2022-2023 demonstrations triggered by the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman arrested by morality police for violating the country's strict dress codes.
The authorities' handling of an array of political, social and economic crises have deepened the gap between the clerical rulers and society.
Supporters of the clerical establishment spoke admiringly of Raisi...
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Here's mine.
We're sorry that the prez is dead in a 'copter bound for heaven, Where he's filling big cups with red ice At a celestial seven-eleven. The virgins all are homely broads That look like Phyllis Diller, And there you are, stuck in their midst You low-life woman killer.
Bad freep software. Bad.
In Lieu of condolence cards, the prez requests ice cubes. Lots of ice cubes.
Note to self: Get plenty of fireworks for future celebration.
I’m going to drink a gallon of iced tea so I can water his tombstone.
Where he is now, he will need them.
Wouldn’t surprise me at all. I have a feeling, the finger of God, knocked down a bunch of Iranian missiles too.
Iran is divided, but the Muslims have all the guns.
I always felt that the grand kids of the Iranians who rioted for this government in 1978 would try to overthrow their grand parent’s mistake, IF they had the weapons.
I’m still hung over from a 3 day celebration party 🎊
I blew through a noisemaker with a party hat on, threw some confetti in the air, broke wind and said, “Next!” That was all my celebration.
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