iranianpolitics
The so-called 'Butcher of Tehran' has died. Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and several other officials were killed after their helicopter crashed in northern Iran on Sunday. He was 63. The hardliner was there during many major domestic and international events shaping Iran's recent history. He helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later presided over a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests at home. Abroad, the cleric-turned-politician pushed a tough stance in nuclear talks with Western states as Iran enriched uranium near weapons-gr...
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Iranian president's helicopter that crashed on Sunday in inclement weather turned out to have been a well-known Vietnam-era war relic — or at least its civilian counterpart. The US-made Bell 212 carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and several members of their entourage is a refitted version of the ubiquitous UH-1N "Twin Huey", which is still in wide use globally. Despite its proven longevity, questions arose over whether it was fit for purpose, while the fact that the Tehran regime has been under Western sanctions for decades might indicate that proper m...
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Friday marks parliamentary election day in the Islamic Republic of Iran — or so the regime will want the world to believe. Cue the staged queues lining up at the ballot box ready to deliver their rehearsed script on “Islamic democracy” to international journalists, who will in turn flaunt their “rare and exclusive” reports in Iran. And while some mainstream media outlets in the West will no doubt fall into the Ayatollah’s trap, polling day on 1 March is anything but a free and fair vote. Of course, this will (hopefully) come as no surprise to many: there are no democratic elections in Iran. Ra...
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