Islamic Republic outlets endow Raisi’s death with religious, mystical meanings

Jerusalem Post ^ | 5/20/24 | OHAD MERLIN

[bert]

Regime supporters also point fingers at Israel, Azerbaijan, accusing the countries of conspiring against Iran.

Since the official announcement of the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, numerous spontaneous instances of celebration and sarcasm have been expressed by Persian and Arabic-speaking users and outlets in the Middle East and abroad. However, in the meantime, outlets loyal or belonging to the Islamic Republic regime have been notedly attempting to endow Raisi's death with a mystical dimension and grant religious meaning to his passing.

The death of Raisi was announced this morning at the Imam Reza Holy Shrine in Mashhad, where crowds could be heard crying and grieving following the news of the crash. During the announcement, Raisi was described as a President who both began and ended his term officially on the same date, May 20th, also the birthdate of the Imam buried in the shrine, a significant religious leader in Shi’a Islam.

Imam Ali Reza (Ali Al-Rida in Arabic) was the eighth Imam of the Shi’a sect of Islam who lived around the 8th and 9th centuries. According to Shi’a Islam, the Imam is a holy leader with prophetic and superhuman qualities, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and his successor Ali, who is supposed to lead the entire Islamic nation. According to some traditions, Imam Reza was poisoned by the Sunni Caliph Al-Mamoun.

Raisi was given the title “servant of the Reza shrine” during his lifetime due to his service and maintenance of the shrine. As part of the narrative building of Raisi as a martyr related to Imam Reza, many photographs of the late President wearing ordinary clothes and cleaning the holy site began circulating virally to show his piousness.

The connection made between the traditional Shi’i religious leader and Iranian President Raisi is further propagated by the viral hashtag #Servant_of_Reza, alongside others such as “the martyr of servitude.” These are meant to further cement the mystical and mythological aura surrounding the President’s death.

More on the religious aspect of his death, as a eulogy for Raisi, the official account of the former Iranian President quoted uranic verses lauding and commending Ibrahim, the Islamic prophet corresponding with the Biblical Abraham, which read “Peace be upon Ibrahim; Thus do We reward the doers of good; He is one of our faithful servants,” adding a black flag as a sign of mourning.

Other pictures of Raisi holding a Quran book on the stage of the UN General Assembly also circulated widely to portray his devotedness, in addition to caricatures supposedly depicting Raisi’s arrival in heaven and encounter with Iranian and Shi’i iconic leaders such as Qassem Soleimani, Khomeini, and Imam Ali.

Implying Israeli and Azeri involvement Other regime supporters started to point accusing fingers at Israel and sometimes Azerbaijan, which Raisi visited prior to his death, or the West as a whole.

Already yesterday, Amr Abd Al-Sater Mahmoud, a presenter on Saudi 24 channel and a former member of parliament in Iraq, claimed that "(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu shot down Raisi's helicopter and burned everyone who was there with him." Mahmoud, who describes himself as an expert on international affairs, also linked the helicopter crash to the visit of US Defense Secretary Sullivan to Israel, and even to tensions between Netanyahu and Minister Benny Gantz.

Ahmed Ghadiri, an Iranian writer and journalist, also deemed Israel and Azerbaijan accountable for the death of Raisi, commenting: “The crash of the helicopter carrying government officials makes the accident a strong possibility of assassination and sabotage, and the crash of the president's personal helicopter among the three helicopters makes the mentioned possibility almost certain. That is when there was a meeting with the Zionist regime of Azerbaijan before the incident.”

One user named “Ansar Allah [the Houthi movement] in Persian” quoted the so-called ‘axis of resistance’ adding: "If the Zionist regime was involved in this incident - the entire region will burn."

In the same context, another conspiratorial user added: “Do you believe it was just an accident? Even though Aliyev (President of Azerbaijan) and the Republic of Azerbaijan are Zionists? The dirty nature of Israel, Zionism, and the West has become clear through their recent crimes. That's suspicious, sir. Suspicious.”

Likewise, a blogger named Agha Ebrahim declared: “After about 6 hours of monitoring the virtual space in today's timeline and checking Zionist accounts, I declare: Today's incident was definitely done to assassinate Mr. Raisi, and Ilham Aliyev cooperated with the Zionists in this incident. God knows when the security system will announce this.”

[bert]

It is plainly obvious to me that the death of the Iranian leaders in a fog shrouded helicopter crash was the will of Allah.

Allah had enough of the religious war perpetrated in his name.

Allah's will was done. Al Rasi died

[sauropod]

bkmk

[NWFree]

I plan to leave a gift in my 🚽 throne room today as a memorial to such a great guy

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Raisi was described as a President who both began and ended his term officially on the same date, May 20th, also the birthdate of the Imam buried in the shrine, a significant religious leader in Shi’a Islam.

It is interesting that Allah chose the Western Christian Gregorian Calendar rather than Islamic Calendar. The dates would all be different on the Islamic calendar.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Azerbaijan President] Ilham Aliyev cooperated with the Zionists in this incident. God knows when the security system will announce this.”

God knows, Iran doesn't have enough enemies, time to find a new one.

[Candor7]

Raisi was a quintessential Islam0fascist,one who punished,jailed, maimed and executed thoise in violation of Sharia decorum.A woman hater who do not want women to be educated

and now they say:

"outlets loyal or belonging to the Islamic Republic regime have been notedly attempting to endow Raisi's death with a mystical dimension and grant religious meaning to his passing. "

As far as Iranian women are concerned, they celebrate that he is dead and celebrate that Raisi is replaceable with a more moderate mullah.

Raisi is one of a few human beings in an exclusive group whose death inproves the entire human genome. Nothing mystica about that unless you are having your prayers answered.

[spincaster]

Now that’s funny. Hahahahahahahahaha

[FES0844]

Divine intervention. Maranatha!

[Nateman]

...May 20th, also the birthdate of the Imam buried in the shrine, a significant religious leader in Shi’a Islam.

It is also the 14th anniversary of Draw Mohammed Day!

[dljordan]

“Regime supporters also point fingers at Israel, Azerbaijan, accusing the countries of conspiring against Iran.”

Duh?

[Clutch Martin]

IMHO this occurance falls right in with a classic example of Occam’s razor, in that pilot error coupled with catastrophic mechanical malfunction were the causative factors.

Years ago I purchased a beater Dodge Dart with a “repaired” voltage regulator from a couple of middle east characters... that failed after a few weeks. An OTS voltage regulator at the time cost around $5, the repair was shoddy at best and the solder job was sloppy. Nice try... bomb makers blow themselves to pieces with a similar level of ineptitude.

[Red Badger]

He attacked Israel.

Karma is a MF........................

[MeanWestTexan]

While that is certainly possible, Israel has a very long track record of not killing heads of state. They had multiple opportunities with Nasser and even Yasser Arafat, but passed due to policy reasons.

This was a 50 year old helicopter flying in bad weather in treacherous terrain.

Odd are it is what I learned at Ft Bragg (wearing a yellow hat for those that know) a “controlled flight into terrain.”

[Migraine]

Islamic Republic outlets endow Raisi’s death with religious, mystical meanings

I got your mystical, religious meaning right here.

[Aquamarine]

They were flying in thick fog and flew into a mountain top. Should have known better.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The Iranians are dancing in the streets and blowing off fireworks.

[The Louiswu]

[libstripper]

FTA:

“Implying Israeli and Azeri involvement”

“Other regime supporters started to point accusing fingers at Israel and sometimes Azerbaijan, where Raisi visited prior to his death, or the West as a whole. Already yesterday, Amr Abd Al-Sater Mahmoud, a presenter on Saudi 24 channel and a former member of parliament in Iraq, claimed that “(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu shot down Raisi’s helicopter and burned everyone who was there with him.” Mahmoud, who describes himself as an expert on international affairs, also linked the helicopter crash to the visit of US Defense National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to Israel, and even to tensions between Netanyahu and Minister Benny Gantz.”

ROTFLMAO!!! If Mossad did it, it was brilliant. Now the Iranians don’t know whether it’s safer to run emergency location equipment or not on all their aircraft. If they run such gear, there’s a good chance Israel will pick off the better targets. If they don’t, they’ll have a nightmare finding anything that crashes. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch.

[Ingtar]

Is there a betting pool on whether Israel or the USA will be blamed first?