Posted on 05/21/2024 6:01:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Biden administration on Monday expressed condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi and several Iranian regime officials were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Iran over the weekend. Raisi, known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” oversaw aggressive foreign policies that increased tensions with the West and authoritarian domestic policies to repress and abuse the Iranian population, whom he was deeply unpopular with. This would be
“The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement on Monday. “As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
“We regret any loss of life. We don’t want to see anyone die in a helicopter crash,” Miller told reporters on Monday.
Raisi was elected to the presidency in 2021 but had spent decades serving in various roles in the Iranian regime. As a prosecutor in 1988, Raisi was on a “death commission” panel responsible for ordering the execution of thousands of Iranian political prisoners, earning him the “Butcher” nickname. Raisi boasted of his role in executing the prisoners and called it “one of the proud achievements” of the Iranian regime, according to Amnesty International.
As president, Raisi oversaw the Iranian regime’s scores of human rights violations against the country’s population, including extrajudicial killings and executions, arbitrary arrest and detention in “life-threatening” prison conditions, torture, kidnapping, repression of political and religious freedoms and “serious government corruption.” He also participated in cover-ups of government abuses, according to the State Department’s 2023 Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Raisi also promoted the Iranian regime’s foreign policies, including maintaining its role as the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Iranian-backed terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis have launched scores of attacks against U.S., Israeli and Western forces since Oct. 7, the day Hamas invaded Israel and killed roughly 1,200 people, which was celebrated by Raisi and the Iranian regime, according to Iran International.
“Today’s statement by @StateDept offering “official condolences” after #Iran‘s regime’s president’s death is a symptom of a larger problem. The Biden administration’s Iran policy is adrift,” Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, said on X on Monday. “It is defined by an extreme and irrational risk-aversion. It tries to appease everyone at the same time–the regime included–and shoots itself in the foot time and again.”
Don’t worry. CNN’s got this.
CNN will report that he was “a mostly-peaceful ‘Butcher Of Tehran’”
Joe sent them a pallet cash so they could buy a new one
Fixed it…
Joe Pedo got the flag at half mast yet?
He was the head of a fellow sovereign state. The U.S. should have said something decent, and did. Let’s move on.
What a bunch of fools in the White House? Obozo must be totally devastated over Raisin’s death.
No big deal. It’s protocol. Anything else buys us nothing.
It wouldn’t be right to jump for joy over OJ’s passing.
Sorry but it is a charade to offer condolences when the core personnel of a criminal, brutal organization die. True justice would hold Obama/Biden accountable for sending the mullahs the cash. Raisi used the cash to pay his thugs to kill and terrorize. They demanded to be paid in hard currency. Sure there are tens of thousands or Iranian families who are not looking for “condolences” or any more cash from the US.
If that dude was plotting Ezekiel 38, that may just be correct
A Jewish representative at the un I guess it was quipped after they held co dolences for the butcher “what next? Condolences for hitler?”
Ai produced?
Nothing in all of these matters has any meaning other than the impact on Dearborn, Michigan — where there enough Muslim voters to decide the whole state.
This maneuver is largely pointless because Dearborn is Sunni.
Not sure.
Did Truman send condolences to Germany after the death of Hitler?
The theme of it kinda looked like someone might written in something like “God’s hand pushes Iranian chopper out of the sky” in a “text to image” ai- (if that is an Iranian chopper?)
Reminds me of this poem:
High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew –
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Uhh...no...might have had something to do with the fact that we were rudely tromping through the German countryside, and were about to pay him an uninvited visit.
In this case we’re not at war with Iran.
The U.S. is only being internationally decent here. Nobody’s asking us about our degree of contempt for the Iranian ruling class. Why show it now?
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