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BREAKING: Iranian President's Helo Suffers 'Accident' or 'Incident' - Either Way, It Went Down

2024-05-19

Text added with all updates posted at the site as of 3:00 pm ET. Not prettied up, but y’all can go to the tweets if you want. ~~Also, I set it as an update to today’s headline.~~ Finally, thank to Frank G for posting, and all who added updates in comments — you all are why we all come here to find out what’s going on in the world.

[HotAir, HT Grom] A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating.

Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Traveling with Raisi were Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. One local government official used the word “crash” to describe the incident, but he acknowledged to an Iranian newspaper that he had yet to reach the site himself.

Beege Welborn

There's lots of CYA and fancy lingo coming out of Tehran right now as you can imagine. Shoud be interesting watching this shake out and what - or WHO - gets blamed.

Raisi would be no loss to humanity, that's for sure.

As a young man, Ebrahim Raisi sentenced thousands of innocent Iranians to execution.

He was known as the hang man and butcher of Tehran. Now he's the hangman of the whole nation.

If Raisi is confirmed dead, millions will celebrate across Iran. pic.twitter.com/7v5NZg9AYG

— Nioh Berg ♛ ✡︎ אסתר (@NiohBerg) May 19, 2024
Time and unraveling the various stories will tell.

UPDATE Welp, looks like the Iranian news services are setting the stage for news. They'd already deleted a tweet where Raisi was taking a cab home (seriously - they did).

As has President Rais...oops https://t.co/S1h71ewdNe

— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) May 19, 2024
So I guess things are a bit grimmer on the ground and they can't cover for what they're going to pull out of the site.

#BREAKING: "high" possibility of casualties due to the "seriousness" of the accident involving President Raisi - IRIB News Agency

— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) May 19, 2024
UPDATE to the UPDATE: Let me just add as an aviation type, with these videos coming out of the crash site, no one should have been flying in that goo to begin with in a helo. Ask Kobe Bryant if you don't believe me.

Iranian television is airing coverage of the rescue efforts and the accident site. https://t.co/HvVVeO0ng5 pic.twitter.com/TUQZyVd9vs

— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) May 19, 2024
UPDATED UPDATE: As Ebola just said, this is starting to sound like Warhammer Fantasy. Wolves and bears enter the picture, baby.

JUST IN: REPORT:

It's now nighttime, and the rescue teams have yet to reach the crash site.
The Iranian Red Crescent has reported that some of their own rescue teams are lost.

Locals suggest that the area becomes a hunting ground for wolves and bears at night, raising… https://t.co/2n29JQviTT pic.twitter.com/cqJaVK8y60

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 19, 2024
It's now nighttime, and the rescue teams have yet to reach the crash site. The Iranian Red Crescent has reported that some of their own rescue teams are lost.

Locals suggest that the area becomes a hunting ground for wolves and bears at night, raising concerns that if the crew is injured, nature may take its course.

I'm not concerned. You concerned?

HELLO: Looks like they've stumbled across something in the dark. Nothing more than that at the moment.

BREAKING - IRAN'S PRESIDENT RAISI'S CRASHED HELICOPTER HAS BEEN FOUND BY SEARCH TEAMS - STATE TV pic.twitter.com/ISgNiQIOIB

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) May 19, 2024
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