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Iranian President Raisi feared dead as helicopter wreckage found (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 5 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
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(Reuters) -Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage. "President Raisi's helicopter was completely burned in the crash ... unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead," the official told Reuters.

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If it comes out that Israel did this it's going to be a Gavrillo Princep moment

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

If they think themselves to be prepared for it they can report Israel did this even if it was truly a maintenance issue

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 months ago

Be interesting to put the pieces together. Israel is sharp, they’d never do it without implicating the US.

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn't you know that Israel is responsible for every helicopter that crashed because a pilot decided to fly in unsafe conditions?

[–] juicy@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not like Israel just assassinated some Iranian generals a few weeks ago, or that they routinely operate on the ground in Iran:

Unlikely as it may sound, it’s not the first time Mossad has claimed to have undertaken such an operation. In fact, this is the third such case in the last eighteen months. In April 2022, Israeli media reported on an alleged Mossad operation on Iranian territory. Israeli intelligence agents had reportedly detained and questioned Mansour Rasouly, a fifty-two-year-old IRGC agent, in his residence in Iran, where he had confessed to a plan to assassinate an Israeli diplomat in Turkey, an American general stationed in Germany, and a journalist in France. The Israeli media published an audio file of Rasouly’s confession without revealing their source.

Months later, in July 2022, London-based diaspora satellite channel Iran International claimed that Mossad had interrogated another IRGC official, Yadollah Khedmati, in Iran, publishing the footage of his confessions about the transfer of weaponry to Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen.

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's wait until we have evidence before we jump to conclusions. Just because a thought aligns with our biases doesn't make it true.

[–] juicy@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, sure. I'm just saying that it's reasonable to raise it as a possibility.