Iran President feared dead

[Krgrecw]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sh-Russia.html



Gonna be a long week in Iran

[zitothebrave]

I cannot imagine anything good coming from this. Hope I'm wrong but usually sudden death of a despot means someone else replaces them and sometimes they're worse see Stalin, Joseph.

[Carp]

I can see all the conspiracy theories now from pro-palestinian crowd.

[zitothebrave]

I can see all the conspiracy theories now from pro-palestinian crowd.

I mean USA or Israel offing the leader of Iran isn't out fo the question. But I mean why was he in a helicopter?

[zbhargrove]

I cannot imagine anything good coming from this. Hope I'm wrong but usually sudden death of a despot means someone else replaces them and sometimes they're worse see Stalin, Joseph.

I don't know... Iran's president is more of a figure head anyways... the Ayatollah is the real one in charge.

[zbhargrove]

I mean USA or Israel offing the leader of Iran isn't out fo the question. But I mean why was he in a helicopter?

Lol it was awful foggy conditions in rugged mountainous terrain. A helicopter should not have been flying in those conditions. Sounds very similar to the Kobe Bryant accident. No way this was a hit.

[chop2chip]

I don't know... Iran's president is more of a figure head anyways... the Ayatollah is the real one in charge.

yup. This guy was one of a couple candidates to succeed the current Ayotollah who is 85. Aside from that, I’m not sure this will ultimately move the needle that much.

[nsacpi]

Despite poor relations between Tehran and Washington, the Iranian air force maintains five of these U.S.-designed aircraft for its VIP squadron, including the one involved in the president’s crash, according to Scramble, a Dutch aviation website. Some may be decades old — data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, shows that the average age of the 15 Bell 212 aircraft registered in Iran was 35 years old — with their maintenance complicated by international sanctions on Iran.

Bell Helicopter, now Bell Textron, which developed the helicopter in the 1960s, said it had little information about the state of the helicopter. “We can confirm that Bell does not conduct any business in Iran or support their helicopter fleet, and we do not have knowledge about the active state of the helicopter involved in this accident,” Bell said in a statement to The Post on Monday.

https://wapo.st/3wGQ2gu

Interesting they haven't sourced newer helicopters from China or Russia for their VIPs.