Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi dead in helicopter crash

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, state media reported Monday morning.



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[Mrchair]

May he be reincarnated as a Iranian woman. 🙏

[Liashwarma]

I think this is the only crash in history where everyone is worried that someone might have survived

[maryk]

Iranians prayers have been answered finally

[hoitsil]

Well calling a crash a hard landing is certainly a unique way to say it.

[goldwingerppg]

Wow! What idiots to fly in those conditions and to fly with two top officials on the same helicopter.

[fuffthebucks]

I feel bad for the grass and plants that were lost in the accident

[jferres]

Let's have a moment of silence for the helicopter.

[whatabouttheearth]

😢 Shed a tear for those poor worms in the ground and that poor helicopter

[amarni]

May he be reincarnated as a Iranian women 🙏🏽

[Waverlyduli]

Perhaps it was just Mother Nature's Fatwa against an Iranian leader getting delivered.

[CreoleLadyBug]

This was no accident. It was extremely dumb for his handlers to let him on an aircraft with visibility being so poor. This was an inside job.

[solmazsurvivor]

How many people he sent to be sentenced to death without having chance to have a lawyer and defend themselves. How many people he was responsible to death of? Karma seems to work. He didn't let mothers see their children corpse. His corpse was torn into parts. Karma seems to work.

[Bigwill]

Sometimes good things happen to bad people!

[turtleark]

Never ride a helicopter while foggy. That is how Kobe Bryan died.

[Kiki-envm]

Even the weather doesn't like this man, poor, poor, poor trees, snd the mountains, i hope they are not badly hurt, and the poor helicopter.

[billyyank]

Look at that was more than likely a factor if not the major factor.

[georgethepatriot]

Reports of Fireworks in Tehran. Women smiling today apart from 72 who i hear have formed an escape committee

[Netcentric-fkek]

they called him 'the butcher of Tehran'....for a reason

[cynthiagonzalez]

So, that earlier report about communication from 3 "survivors" were incorrect 😑

[bonifaceorduh]

"I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU AND CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE YOU."