The lethal fireball helicopter crash that saw Iran’s president killed shows that the country “couldn’t find its way out of a paper bag,” an expert has claimed.
The wreckage of the ill-fated US-made Bell 212 helicopter was discovered by rescue teams today, with initial reports suggesting that the dreadful weather in the country’s mountainous northwest could be the cause as the duo were en route to Tehran.
Mehr news agency reported that Ebrahim Raisi, aged 63, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian “accepted martyrdom” while “fulfilling his duty to the people of Iran.” In an emergency government meeting held in Tehran, the president’s chair remained vacant.
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However, speaking exclusively to the Daily Star, defence expert Professor Anthony Glees has claimed that the crash shows more about the “feared” Iran than most would realise.
He said: “We must never forget that the Supreme Leader, not the president, has the real and absolute power in Iran, a highly dangerous and unstable nation.
“Ebrahim Raisi the late president was know as the brutal ‘Butcher of Iran’. Note his black turban. He rose through the ranks of this odious regime because of his brutality, a public prosecutor and leading light in the regime’s ‘Death Committee’ who re-tried dissidents and sentenced 5,000 of them to death.
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“He lead the attack on the ‘Women, Life and Freedom’ movement, had over 500 women killed and we believe as many as 20,000 arrested. And we know what happens to women the Iranian guards have under their control.
“We should rejoice in the fact that he has gone – the very fact that the president and the foreign minister were both in the same helicopter, and both flying in fog so thick they could not be found, shows us how incompetent these clerics are when it comes to running a country. They can butcher and rape their opponents, citing religious practices, but they cannot find their way out of a paper bag.”
Professor Glees also shed some light on who could take over the role as president, and claimed that it could evolve into a “bloody civil war.”
He said the “smart money” would be on Mohammad Mokhber on the grounds that Mojtaba Khameini, son of the Supreme Leader Ali Khameini is exactly that . . . the Supreme Leader’s son.
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