Iran's President and Foreign Minister confirmed dead in helicopter crash

[Looch City]

And may they burn in hell. Too bad the Ayatollah wasn't on there.

Ongoing news thread on BBC, recently just confirmed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-69035051?src_origin=BBCS_BBC"]

There is "no sign" of life coming from President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter, state TV says.

Reuters has also reported that the helicopter was "completely burned" in the crash, citing an Iranian official.

"President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash... unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead," the official said.

Although there's no shortage of crazy fundamentalist there to take charge next...is there a very slight glimmer of hope...?

[Texas]

[Snuffleupagus]

Yeah they're all puppets, as long as Khamenei is still in charge there won't be an ounce of change.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Yeah they're all puppets, as long as Khamenei is still in charge there won't be an ounce of change.

Yea but he's 85 and apparently in poor health, and he had been grooming Raisi for years to take over as supreme leader. And Raisi was grooming that foreign minister to take over for him, so the entire line of succession is gone. If the ayatollah kicks it in the next few weeks or months there could be complete chaos in Iran

[Ped]

Originally Posted by Texas

If you were gonna grab a Simpsons reference, I assumed it would have been the Ayatolla Assahola shirt

[CaptainCrunch]

WTF, the UN security council is requested to do a moment of silence for that dead rat.


NATO spokes person puts out condolences.


Are we fracking mad?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

WTF, the UN security council is requested to do a moment of silence for that dead rat.

NATO spokes person puts out condolences.

Are we fracking mad?

Seems like standard issue diplomacy to me. They sent condolences to the people of the country for the loss of an important figure. It's a tweet lol. I wouldn't worry about it.

[ResAlien]

I would prefer if NATO was like “haha suck it nerds! Chalk one up for the good guys.” before a bunch of laughing emojis and gifs of DX doing the crotch chop

[Harry Lime]

This guy was absolute scum. He was over the top hardliners because he wanted to be the next leader. His atrocities during the women's revolution were heinous, and he is the one that instigated the murder that incited the revolution in the first place.

Kind of sad that there wasn't encampments at universities over that conflict.

[CaptainCrunch]

Even the UN got into it.


I mean its literally gross.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1792590364341149813

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Even the UN got into it.


I mean its literally gross.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1792590364341149813

Yeah you already said that.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Kinda funny the same people cheering on genocidal Netanyahu and his ilk are the same people freaking out over T&P's over another terrorist leader.

[Harry Lime]

Honestly, Mustache, if you want to roll in here and defend militant Islamic rapist and murderers, then you undercut your position on Gaza. Long before the war in Israel, there were people calling out Iran for atrocities, and I don't remember your voice anywhere.

That Iran is still a theocracy today, due to lack of global support for the women's revolution, is disgusting. They were worried about a missile attack on Israel, and now that's come and gone like a fart in the wind. The West and everyone in it was scared of a paper tiger, miles weaker than russia, and known for thousands of raped and murdered dissidents in the name of government control.

Iran's Dear Leader is a whole other level than you are prepared for, if you are making parallels to Netanyahu.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Honestly, Mustache, if you want to roll in here and defend militant Islamic rapist and murderers, then you undercut your position on Gaza. Long before the war in Israel, there were people calling out Iran for atrocities, and I don't remember your voice anywhere.

That Iran is still a theocracy today, due to lack of global support for the women's revolution, is disgusting. They were worried about a missile attack on Israel, and now that's come and gone like a fart in the wind. The West and everyone in it was scared of a paper tiger, miles weaker than russia, and known for thousands of raped and murdered dissidents in the name of government control.

Iran's Dear Leader is a whole other level than you are prepared for, if you are making parallels to Netanyahu.

Someone was defending militant Islamic rapists and murders?

Dang, how did I miss that gem?

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Honestly, Mustache, if you want to roll in here and defend militant Islamic rapist and murderers, then you undercut your position on Gaza. Long before the war in Israel, there were people calling out Iran for atrocities, and I don't remember your voice anywhere.

That Iran is still a theocracy today, due to lack of global support for the women's revolution, is disgusting. They were worried about a missile attack on Israel, and now that's come and gone like a fart in the wind. The West and everyone in it was scared of a paper tiger, miles weaker than russia, and known for thousands of raped and murdered dissidents in the name of government control.

Iran's Dear Leader is a whole other level than you are prepared for, if you are making parallels to Netanyahu.

Did you miss the part about the terrorist leader being killed.....the Iranian president. Did you bother reading that? You pro-Israel crowd are amazing at reading things that don't exist.

[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

Kinda funny the same people cheering on genocidal Netanyahu and his ilk are the same people freaking out over T&P's over another terrorist leader.

It's right there.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

It's right there.

Glad you found it.

[KelVarnsen]

https://www.theonion.com/iranian-pre...ain-1851488487

[activeStick]

Lol that headline! Haha

[Harry Lime]

Look, Stache (and bizarrely supported by Pepsi), you have to understand that Iran has been an established crippling dictatorship for over 50 years. The human rights violations have been covered in book after book. There is a massive history of decrepit behavior that is not in the same league as the events in Gaza. They are just different.

So, coming in here and berating those who are calling out OUR representatives for coddling and gladhanding the type of acts that you yourself seem to deplore, is aggravating to say the least.

NATO and the UN sending condolences on our behalf is ####ty behavior, and needs to be called out. Coming in here and trying to draw parallels that aren't there, only draw attention to the parts of the Gaza story that we have all condemned, and that is the use of physical and sexual abuse as a weapon, that Iran pioneered in the modern iteration of the region. Hamas is the bastard child of Iran's regime, and it's okay to not like them.