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The Iranian president’s helicopter crashed. God? Bad luck? The Mossad?
American Thinker ^ | 05/19/2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/19/2024 10:27:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

News broke a few hours ago that the helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, has crashed in the mountainous, wooded terrain of Eastern Azerbaijan, with a search ongoing for the crash site.

Sometimes bad things happen, but when the President of Iran’s helicopter crashes, and his foreign minister was on the copter, too, one wonders if its more than coincidence. People are already wondering whether this was an accident or something more.

It’s no secret that Iran is a worldwide state funder of terrorism. Along with Qatar, it’s the money behind both Hezbollah and Hamas, which are fighting Israel from the East and the North. Violence in the Middle East would be dramatically diminished if Iran’s bankroll were cut off. The same is true for the military support it provides in terms of weapons, training, and strategy.

But it’s not just Israel that’s a target of Iranian malevolence. Since 1979, Iran’s battle cry has been “Death to America.” The official government policy is that it is in an existential war with the United States. Israel is the “Little Satan,” while America is the “Great Satan.

For forty-five years, the Iranian people, once the most sophisticated, successful Muslim people in the world, have been laboring under the Mullahs’ fanatic yoke. And when I say “fanatic,” I mean that.

The Shia faith is an apocalyptic faith that waits for the return of the hidden or missing Imam:

The Shia call all the male descendants of the Prophet Muhammad “imams” and ascribe to them a quasi-divine status.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; Israel
KEYWORDS: crash; iran; president
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To: SeekAndFind

Remember, this is the government the Iranians rioted for back in 1978!


21 posted on 05/19/2024 11:13:02 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dingdong the Iranian president is dead. It sounds like the weather conditions were crappy and it’s a very old helicopter. Probably used a lot of old parts. Probably just a horrible accident. I doubt Israel or the US were behind the crash.


22 posted on 05/19/2024 11:19:02 AM PDT by ncfool (America has died we are living in the united socialist states of aMeriKa)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes. No. Maybe.


23 posted on 05/19/2024 11:32:01 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: SeekAndFind

Joe Biden probably ordered it. He hates Israel blame it on them and hope that the Iranians destroy Israel.


24 posted on 05/19/2024 11:58:25 AM PDT by tinamina (Remember when Biden said “we have developed the most sophisticated voting fraud system ever”? )
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To: tinamina

What.....nobody want to blame the CIA?


25 posted on 05/19/2024 12:14:51 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Well after Fico, they needed a break.


26 posted on 05/19/2024 12:17:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Seruzawa

“I’d bet on typical shoddy ME maintenance.”

Yep, their copters are about 50 years old. If it’s true (as reported) that survivors from the downed copter have called in, it sounds like the hard landing story might be true.


27 posted on 05/19/2024 12:18:45 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fourth possibility: Disaffected factions or ethnic groups within Iran, such as student dissidents, the Baluchi, Kurds or Ahwazis.


28 posted on 05/19/2024 12:44:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The Mossad or Karma bookie mum.


29 posted on 05/19/2024 12:56:22 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ncfool

This time, the bug got squashed on the inside of the windshield.


30 posted on 05/19/2024 1:00:54 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: SeekAndFind
I vote that it was the fine hand of Bibi's Boyz!


31 posted on 05/19/2024 1:17:03 PM PDT by BigEdLB
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To: Vaduz

Where was mossad when Hamas killed 1500 Jews after invading Israel using golf carts and dirt bikes?


32 posted on 05/19/2024 2:02:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

I suspect mechanical or pilot error.


33 posted on 05/19/2024 2:37:02 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: SeekAndFind

With both on the same helicopter it could be that these two displeased the ayatollah or he saw them as becoming dangerous and took care of them in a manner such that the Jews can be blamed after the bodies are found.


34 posted on 05/19/2024 5:02:09 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe S)
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To: dragnet2

The do their work when others sleep.


35 posted on 05/20/2024 5:44:37 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

Uh huh. So what were they doing 10/7/23?


36 posted on 05/20/2024 10:47:14 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: cpdiii
I suspect mechanical or pilot error.

My guess is this accident is similar to the Kobe Bryant helicopter accident. It is unlikely we will hear about an actual cause..

37 posted on 05/20/2024 11:00:21 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: dragnet2

Data flaw pay back in process


38 posted on 05/20/2024 11:46:50 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

lol...


39 posted on 05/20/2024 2:48:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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