{"id":2249031,"date":"2024-05-20T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-killed-in-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T19:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T23:28:22","slug":"iranian-president-killed-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-killed-in-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s President Dies in Helicopter Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firanian-president-killed-in-helicopter-crash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2249031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary covers a helicopter crash \u200cin Azerbaijan that tragically took the lives of Iran&#8217;s\u200d President and Foreign Minister. It \u200ddelves into the controversial backgrounds of the officials, highlighting the President Ebrahim Raisi&#8217;s dark past as\u200b the \u200b&#8221;Butcher of Tehran.&#8221; The aftermath \u200bdiscusses the\u2064 potential successor and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-msnbc-caught-following-hamass-script-after-terror-attacks-on-israel\/\" title=\"MSNBC caught parroting Hamas's agenda post-Israel terror attacks.\">complex political dynamics<\/a> in Iran. The summary recounts a fatal helicopter crash in Azerbaijan that claimed the lives of Iran&#8217;s leaders,\u200d including President Ebrahim Raisi and the Foreign Minister. It unveils \u2062Raisi&#8217;s notorious history as the &#8220;Butcher of Tehran&#8221;\u2062 and explores the implications of their\u2062 deaths, including \u2064the succession \u200cprocess \u2063and the \u200bintricate \u2064political landscape in Iran.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, a helicopter in Azerbaijan carrying the President of Iran as well as the foreign minister of Iran crashed, killing them as well as others on board. The president and the foreign minister of Iran were both murderous butchers, but the media have a very difficult time with this sort of information because they\u2019re not sure whether they\u2019re supposed to call terrorists and their supporters \u201caustere religious scholars,\u201d as we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-50205592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">saw<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  with ISIS leader <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Reuters\/status\/1792415003229999105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">posted on X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  regarding <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who was nicknamed the \u201cButcher of Tehran,\u201d that he \u201crose through Iran\u2019s theocracy from hardline prosecutor to uncompromising president, as he burnished his credentials to position himself to become the next supreme leader.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/who-is-iran-president-ebrahim-raisi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tablet Magazine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  explained who Raisi was in a piece titled, \u201cMeet \u2018The Butcher,\u2019 Iran\u2019s New President Ebrahim Raisi,\u201d writing:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raisi became an Islamist ideologue as a teen studying in the seminary in Qom. After the revolution, when he was only 19 years old and lacking any university education, he was appointed as a prosecutor, rising over the following four decades to fill the positions of attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thatll-do-it-united-nations-urges-taliban-to-be-nicer\/\" title=\"That'll Do It: United Nations Urges Taliban to Be Nicer\">deputy chief justice<\/a> and, most recently, chief justice of Iran\u2019s theocratic dictatorship.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most notably, though, Raisi was one of four members of a death committee responsible for the 1988 execution of thousands of Iranian prisoners of conscience in the space of a few months. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israels-ambassador-manhandled-by-u-n-security-after-condemning-despotic-iranian-president-iranians-praise-him\/\" title=\"Israeli Ambassador assaulted by U.N. security for criticizing Iranian President. Iranians show support.\">ideologically motivated mass executions constituted<\/a> both a crime against humanity and genocide\u2014a cleansing of religious infidels\u2014according to international human rights expert Geoffrey Robertson. It was a massacre, he says, comparable to those at Srebrenica and the Katyn Forest.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raisi would typically spend only a few minutes with each prisoner\u2014some young children\u2014asking them questions to test their allegiance to radical Islam. The prisoners, mostly leftist revolutionaries who had helped bring the regime to power, typically refused to feign loyalty, even after prolonged and brutal torture, which in some cases was personally directed and overseen by Raisi. It is estimated that a minimum of a few thousand and as many as 30,000 were killed by hanging or firing squad. The massacre is still shrouded in secrecy, with the regime continuing to deny information to the families of those killed, including about the location of their loved ones\u2019 remains.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is known is the speed and efficiency of killing, with hangings using forklifts every half hour, and the dumping of dead bodies in piles on trucks, a method and pace that traumatized the executioners themselves. Virgins were systematically raped before their execution, to circumvent the Islamic prohibition on killing virgins and to prevent women and girls from reaching heaven. The executed were ordered to write their own names on their hands before they went to their death. The massacre is a trauma etched into the collective consciousness of all of the Iranian people, throughout the country and throughout the diaspora.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who had been designated to succeed the revolutionary leader Khomeini, condemned the mass executions in an act of dissent. In response, Khomeini rescinded Montazeri\u2019s clerical rank, canceled his selection as the next supreme leader, and condemned him to house arrest. In Montazeri\u2019s place, Raisi rose up.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raisi was an evil human being presiding over the death of American soldiers all across the Middle East as well as the spread of the terror tentacles of the Islamic Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The foreign minister was Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a close ally of Qassem Soleimani, the senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander and leader of terrorism who was killed in a United States airstrike in Baghdad in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1968-the-2024-election-in-one-graph-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But here\u2019s the salient point: The two men being killed is not going to change anything in the Middle East because Raisi was not the Ayatollah, and the Ayatollahs run Iran. They decide who the leadership is; they engage in massive amounts of fraud. Along with the IRGC, they run the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ayatollahs are simply going to appoint somebody else to fill his stead. That person is likely Vice President Mohammed Mokhber, who is now taking over and has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2024\/05\/20\/iran-acting-president-mohammad-mokhber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sanctioned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  by the United States and the EU. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order for the regime to be completely changed, you\u2019d have to have a full-scale coup from within the IRGC or a popular uprising that overthrows the government. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the EU <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JanezLenarcic\/status\/1792240959180120305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  they were activating their rapid response mapping service in view of the helicopter accident with the hashtag #EUSolidarity. Geert Wilders, the new leader of the elected coalition in The Netherlands, immediately <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/geertwilderspvv\/status\/1792460811274961097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tweeted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cEU solidarity with evil,\u201d which is exactly right. The president of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">European Council <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CharlesMichel\/status\/1792438047058890987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cThe EU expresses its sincere condolences for the death of President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian, as well as other members of their delegation and crew in a helicopter accident. Our thoughts go to the families.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d Wilders <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/geertwilderspvv\/status\/1792474240798568701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fired<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cN<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ot in My Name!\u201d \u2014 which is the correct response for the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s an absolute absurdity that there are so many members of the press, so many members of the EU, so many people inside the United States who will express condolences and solidarity with legitimate monsters who have spread terror all over the region and keep tens of millions of their own citizens in abject poverty and under the boot of an evil tyranny, tolerate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/location\/middle-east-and-north-africa\/middle-east\/iran\/report-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">chemical attacks deliberately targeting girls\u2019 schools<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  nationwide<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">force girls out of school, and prosecute people who do not comply with Sharia law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are so many Westerners who can\u2019t make basic moral distinctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter crash in Azerbaijan on Sunday claimed the lives of Iran&#8217;s President and Foreign Minister, along with other passengers. 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