“We can see the wreckage and the situation does not look good,” the head of lran’s Red Crescent, Pirhossein Kolivand, told state TV.
I’m so curious to see how Iran will change over the next decade. Given that the Supreme Leader is quite old, the person who takes Raisi’s place is going to be really influential in the Middle East at a time when the whole region is a pressure cooker.
the person who takes Raisi’s place is going to be really influential
Impossible. President of Iran is a powerless figurehead position.
The next Supreme Leader will be relevant, though.
This is my bad; I had read somewhere that the president would be considered for the role of Supreme Leader. Upon further reading, it seems this is not the case.
Not the case but Raisi was considered to be the favorite along with the supreme leaders son in a close second
Yeah, that must be what I was reading and then assumed that the role of president generally improved chances of being selected.
Reading comprehension is cool, kids!
Why does any country even transport a president by helicopter? Seems needlessly risky, I wouldn’t get in one unless it was an emergency.
They’re cool as hell, but I still don’t trust them.
They’re probably much safer when you don’t buy them from Boeing
Properly maintained helicopters are safe in safe weather. It was the weather that killed them here. Street traffic presents a lot of security concerns as well.
The odds of being in a fatal helicopter crash are impossibly small. 0.63 out of 100,000 in the USA
https://www.airmedandrescue.com/latest/news/us-helicopter-accident-rate-analysis
And if you read up on what causes a lot of these fatalities, you see a lot of accidents with pilots and personal aircraft, or pilots trying doing things like high risk medical evacuations.
The chances of dying in a helicopter air taxi are insanely small.
So you’re saying there’s a high chance of foul play!
I don’t think this has anything to do with poultry
What a lovely day
On the news, they’re blaming a lot of things like the weather, sanctions causing Iran to not be able to get adequate repair parts, possible pilot inexperience, amongst other things, but you just know it was Israel.
Iran lobs misses at Israel, and then the Iranian president winds up dead a few weeks later? That’s classic Mossad right there.
Honestly it just sounds like the president intentionally ordered the flight to take off when the weather wouldn’t have been clear for it and the pilot would in any other circumstances with any other passengers have been able to cancel it outright.
Yeah, but it was a convoy of 3 helicopters, and the one carrying the president was the only one that didn’t make it. So, why was the weather an issue for only that one chopper?
It’s reasonable to imagine.
It’s also reasonable to imagine internal power struggles, or mechanical failure.
Don’t buy anything. We’ll probably never really know.
“Feared dead” might not be the right phrase.
Reuters, AP, CNN, Fox News, Anthony Fantano, Hindustan times, Alex Jones all say confirmed dead
Why would you put Alex Jones in there?
im a silly goose
also pretty sure he’s still in his weekly alcohol induced coma, don’t know if he actually said anything
BBC just reported that Iranian state media has confirmed their deaths:
President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and several others are confirmed to have been killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash in north-western Iran, state TV says.
