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A helicopter carrying President #EbrahimRaisi of #Iran & his foreign minister crashed on Sunday in the country’s mountainous northwest, acc/to state media, deepening the turmoil that has gripped the nation on both the international & domestic fronts in recent months.
#Raisi, 63, was traveling from Iran’s border w/ Azerbaijan to inaugurate a joint dam project.
#geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/world/middleeast/iran-president-helicopter-crash.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
...definitely become a better place w/o him...
...If he'd deceased a year ago, the #Irianian funding of #Hamas had dried up afterwards, then maybe the Oct 7 massacre and the #WarInGaza atrocities would never have happened.
However, "history is never written in conditional clauses," as one of my history teachers used to say.
Alas.
Then, such a "tribute" would not have been necessary:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112463501127332480
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@VOANewsIs such a dance performance near a war zone with 30+k dead appropriate?
What's your opinion?
Via #voanews
▶️ While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southern Israel, in tribute to Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims.
https://youtu.be/4wx697duw40?si=rRb6YzGzxyYEVDyG
Israeli dancers perform in memory of Nova victims, as sounds of Israel-Hamas war echo | VOA News
While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southe...YouTube
...next two weeks, it is probably "confirmed."
The #RevolutionaryGuards and others now need to make a lot of preparations for a likely insurgency...before the news before Raisi's death could be admitted.
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Don't count you chicken before they're hatched.
(4min old, when I copied this)
"State TV:
*Injury or death of helicopter passengers can’t be confirmed*
Iranian state television added that the crash was due to adverse weather conditions."
I wouldn't believe authoritarian state TV, but the same is true for Telegram, if I don't know the source.
We'll see. I he doesn't appear in the media in the...
