Iran

[JimW]

Yeah. I was kind of hoping there might be someone marginally less awful but...

This is a profile of the VP next in line, from a hostile source but presume broad facts are true: https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/mohammad-mokhber-first-vice-president-of-iran

 

[Balbi]

The only way he could be deader is if he was about to testify about Boeing safety standards.

 

[elbows]

 

[JimW]

That seems to suggest it's burning.

 

[Wookey]

A "hard landing" is a bit like a "wardrobe malfunction". Only takes one slip and you look a right tit.

 

[Wookey]

In case you can't imagine what a presidential Bell 212 helicopter actually looks like plunging into a foggy Iranian mountainside....

This just in from AI News.

 

[Combustible]

Surprising that the president and foreign minister would travel in the same helicopter.

 

[teqniq]

All dead then:

Iran Sets Presidential Election Date in June | Iran International

www.iranintl.com

Some analysis of what come next from the FT (more of the same):

President Ebrahim Raisi’s death deals blow to Iranian regime

 

[kebabking]

Surprising that the president and foreign minister would travel in the same helicopter.

It happens with seniors all over the world - power/authority corrupts, and a) the rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to them, and b) they think they'll live forever.

 

[tim]

Lo he came in clouds descending ...

 

[two sheds]

they think they'll live forever.

They nearly did to be fair.

 

[JimW]

Shitehawk Down

 

[Yossarian]

RIP helicopter, gone at just 30 years old, and best wishes to any trees damaged in the crash

 

[Kaka Tim]

from the gaurdian analysis - for anyone wondering how accidental this crash was and who might benefit .... (Supreme leader Ayatollah Khanenei is on his last legs apparently so timing is interesting too)

In recent months Raisi, elected president in 2021 but in practice handpicked by the supreme leader, had been mentioned as a possible successor to Khamenei. His death instead clears a thorny path for Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Death of president in helicopter crash comes as Iran already faces huge challenges

 

[Silas Loom]

I suppose that Russian GPS jammers might be almost as effective at downing helicopters as Jewish space lasers.

 

[Idris2002]

Can you get Head and Shoulders in Iran?

 

[moochedit]

In case you can't imagine what a presidential Bell 212 helicopter actually looks like plunging into a foggy Iranian mountainside....

This just in from AI News.

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So how come the mountain is burning BEFORE the helecopter hit it? Ai has found the troof!

 

[A380]

You just can't get the parts* anymore...

(*In Tehran.)

 

[keybored]

In case you can't imagine what a presidential Bell 212 helicopter actually looks like plunging into a foggy Iranian mountainside....

This just in from AI News.

View attachment 425117

It looks like it's about to crash into an active volcano.

 

[moochedit]

You just can't get the parts* anymore...

(*In Tehran.)

HIs parts will be scattered all over the mountain but i doubt they are suitable for organ donation now

 

[Wookey]

So how come the mountain is burning BEFORE the helecopter hit it? Ai has found the troof!

This just in from AI News, the mountain was not burning before impact! That was just a lie from Western imperialist fuckpigs with a green agenda. The truth has been updated.
I think the truth needs more trees, and less crop spraying. Be right back...

 

[moochedit]

This just in from AI News, the mountain was not burning before impact! That was just a lie from Western imperialist fuckpigs with a green agenda. The truth has been updated.

I knew it

 

[likesfish]

there's a cafe in Brighton pushes resistance to the Iranian regime given the UK's history I'd doubt we'd be seen as helpful slightly less evil than the US but not by much

 

[Sasaferrato]

HIs parts will be scattered all over the mountain but i doubt they are suitable for organ donation now

Some things happen that make you think 'Yes, there is a God'. As utterly vile bastards go, he was up there with the worst of them.

 

[Pickman's model]

Some things happen that make you think 'Yes, there is a God'. As utterly vile bastards go, he was up there with the worst of them.

yeh that's the xian / jewish / islamic god for you

 

[Pickman's model]

Surprising that the president and foreign minister would travel in the same helicopter.

specially after the polish debacle

 

[Sasaferrato]

yeh that's the xian / jewish / islamic god for you

Well, whichever one it was, they took their time, but got there in the end.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well, whichever one it was, they took their time, but got there in the end.

I don't think God really acts like that tbh

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Some choice quotes from Iranian socials this morning...

• I think this is the only crash in history where everyone is worried if someone survived.”
• “Happy World Helicopter Day!”
• Our TV in Türkiye announced, "Bad news from Iran" — and we all immediately responded, "What, they are alive?"
• “Big thanks to Russia for making the world’s worst helicopters and to the pilot for being a moron or a hero.”

 

[DotCommunist]

Helicopters. Not even once. Not even a biggie like that double rotor chinook, I'm old enough to remember a chinook full of MIsomethings getting stacked into a mountain. Never.