The Butcher of Tehran is dead. Good riddance.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and others were killed in a helicopter crash Sunday. Raisi, 63, was thought to be the most likely successor to 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The helicopter crashed near the Azerbaijan border in poor weather and low visibility.
All nine bodies on board the helicopter were found Monday by search and rescue teams. The weather was described as blizzard conditions.
There will not be any changes in the country’s government, according to press reports. The Iranian government called Raisi “hard-working and tireless,” and that he “sacrificed his life for the nation.” I
One person’s hard-working and tireless government official is another’s brutal butcher of his own people.
Tonight, my thoughts are with the countless victims of the…
