Posted on 05/20/2024 2:44:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Iranian strongman Ebrahim Raisi — aka "the butcher of Tehran" — is dead in a Sunday helicopter crash that his countrymen and women are celebrating, so now would be the perfect time for the New York Times to avoid interviewing the Iranian dissident he tried to have assassinated.
Wait, what?
Raisi was "elected" president in 2021 after decades of coming up through the bloody ranks of Iran's hardcore Shiite Muslim theocracy. He earned the "butcher" moniker for his part on the 1988 "death committee" that quickly sentenced more than 5,000 dissidents to death — and just as quickly had them killed. Dissidents reckon that Raisi is directly responsible for the deaths of around 30,000 Iranians.
Masih Alinejad is a 47-year-old Iranian-born American journalist who has spent the last 20-plus years reporting on Iran's endless human rights abuses, particularly against women. The regime has tried to kill her on multiple occasions, the most recent in 2022. She also avoided a kidnapping plot in 2021.
Farnaz Fassihi is another Iranian-American journalist, but it would be fair to call her a "regime lackey" instead. She's the New York Times United Nations bureau chief and also writes about Iran. As such, whatever else the New York Times reports on Raisi's death, Fassihi doesn't want anyone speaking to Alinejad about it — and she was caught on audio posted to X (formerly Twitter).
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Hillaryous
He has met his maker
Roast in hell
“Iranian strongman Ebrahim Raisi — aka “the butcher of Tehran” — is dead...”
If he was on it. Anything Iran says is not to be trusted. And since Biden, and before him Obama, have been assisting Iran, wouldn’t be surprizing.
wy69
Or perhaps the will of Allah?
Any way is okay to celebrate the demise of this Iranian democrat.
It was a hard landing, doncha know. Really f’in hard.
I wonder if they found the filth’s brain inside that preposterous lid he wears?
It helps to have an instrument rating...and use them.
It sure as hell wasn’t the CIA.
“”If he was on it. Anything Iran says is not to be trusted””
One of the tried and true methods of self-preservation is to have a very public ‘death.’ Mossad and others just might cease searching for you. On the other hand, if Mossad and/or others were involved in his death........
Well....... Bye!
No more impossible than landing a fixed wing (many of which have a stall speed that's substantially higher than the best rate of descent airspeed for a copter) under the same conditions.
Runway visibility is always controlling for an instrument approach, regardless whether the aircraft's wing's rotate.
That and the fact that the pilot couldn't risk saying "No!" to his passenger.
This alleges to be the first photo released of the crash site:
You can't make out much detail but to my eye it looks to be a small, fairly contained crash site on the side of a pretty steep mountain slope. My gut hunch is he was flying fat, dumb and happy at cruise speed and ran smack into cumulo-granite.
I knew one of the usual suspects would post this, so I figure I'd beat 'em to it:
I really hate he was killed.......just think, when Trump regains the Oval I suspect he was on Trump’s radar for eradication....;)
“Was it the Mossad? Or faulty maintenance? Or just bad weather? We will never know but the result is just as good either way.”
He was on the Kobe Bryant helicopter ride at Six Flags over Tehran.
I would like to say something nice about the deceased. At least he dressed like a mullah, not like that dodgy little creep in the Members Only jacket 10 or 15 years back...
You know it....
It’s never too soon!
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