The Islamic Republic of Iran’s president and foreign minister are presumed dead after a helicopter crash on Sunday while they were traveling in the eastern part of the country.
The helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province after encountering extremely thick fog.
Raisi was a hardliner who helped oversee the mass execution of thousands political prisoners in 1988 after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering it. There have been widespread allegations in Iran that Raisi only came to power because of a rigged election.
Abdollahian was also a hardliner who had close ties to numerous Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), including Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Palestinian groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Interior Minister Ahmad…
