Posted on 05/19/2024 6:18:34 AM PDT by rdl6989
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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It’s crazy how something like that happens, it could be an accident, or it could be sabotage, /wink wink
I’m sure there was no foul play. 🙄
Not Mossad. Honest.
He was as legitimately voted into office as our own dear leader.
Any landing he can walk away from is a bad landing.
they will put out all kinds of reports without saying anything definite.
Gosh, that sounds terrible. I sure hope nothing good happened to him.
Escalation would be a great thing!
Also, the Military Industrial Complex needs more money.
Just think if an internal Iranian power struggle was happening, take out your biggest political rival and blame it on Israel.
Uh, oh.
The helicopter went down near Jolfa, a city on the Iran-Azerbaijan border about 375 miles northwest of Tehran, the Iranian capital. Raisi’s helicopter was traveling in a convoy with two other helicopters, both of which reportedly landed safely.
Tasnim News Agency reported that foggy weather complicated search efforts for Raisi’s helicopter. The rescue operation is ongoing.
https://www.newsweek.com/iranian-presidents-helicopter-incident-everything-we-know-1902268
Was this hard landing, hard enough?
There have been stories saying Israelis have conducted ops from Azerbaijan with cooperation of its govt.
Well, well, well...
Putin’s number one ally, president Ebrahim Raisi, may have left our planet...
Knowing the paranoia Putin is suffering from, he will probably never use any helicopters from now on...
Is it OK to say that all the players in that region are garbage and that maybe we should keep out of it?
“Tasnim News Agency reported that ‘foggy weather’ complicated search efforts for Raisi’s helicopter.”
You don’t suppose “foggy weather” was a factor in the “landing”?
If it’s Israel, first, good on ya. Second. I hope they start using confiscated Russian weapons for their wet work.
I would agree with you.
Please keep out of it. Please.
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