'Very consequential for Iran's future': Senior Fellow on death of Iranian President Raisi

CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports on the helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the aftermath of the fatal accident. #CNN #News

[seanleon]

It's not the US job to help Iran with their technology.

[jdcochran]

Pray for a new regime in Iran that respects Women! 🙏🙏🙏👍

[StraightFocusedPhotography]

How can we blame America? Ah yes. The sanctions. “We fly this old chopper because the sanction prevent us from getting new choppers!” The same sanction didn’t stop Iran from selling/trading deadly drone to Russia. Should have ask for a new chopper.

[samuelsoto]

They have money to develop rockets, drones and nuclear technology but not invest in helicopters??

[JuanitoPiamonte-xy]

iran can't afford to acquire new chopper but they can acquire ballistic missiles

[marindedi]

Ayatollah killed him to clear the path for his son. The others were collateral damage.

[lagesmanuna]

Deepest condolences to the helicopter.

[newsss]

Flying a helipopter in those conditions is like playing minecraft with a render distance of 4. Absurd!

[redalert]

Perhaps the helicopter used the Windows operating system, which is notorious for crashing.

[ericericgoodwin]

If you can't maintain a helicopter. You damn sure can't maintain nukes.. ..

[thene]

I thought Iran would have bought new helicopters from Russia or China, specially to transport the president.

[danos]

They’re blaming United States. They’re blaming Israel. Maybe they should blame the weather conditions in poor piloting.

[babakhazini]

As an Iranian; it saddens me that this terrorist dictator didn’t live long enough to stand trial for 46 yrs of crimes against humanity.

[wynzchannel]

A moment of silence on the mountain. 😅

[pellganesh]

The Iranian president was using a 50 year old American helicopter because it's more reliable than modern Russian or Chinese helicopters, so it must be America's fault.

[davidlozano]

They will be replaced with two more Devils

[PacificForage]

Good grief. A helicopter is probably from the 60s in dense fog in mountainous terrain. As a former helicopter mechanic, I can almost guarantee it was pilot error.

[samamir]

Congratulations to the people Iranian ❤🌹

[ripadipaflipa]

What a waste of a great helicopter no wonder these politicians are upset

[colesoum]

Don't blame anyone. It is the bad weather and pilot fault.