#ebrahimraisi

On May 19, a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six others crashed near Jolfa, situated on the border of Azerbaijan. Eight people died in the incident that took place in an unfavorable weather condition and dense fog. The weather also hampered the search and rescue operations, which lasted over 10 hours. As the news of the incident circulated on social media platforms, certain accounts also shared pictures that, they claimed, were from the crash. BREAKING: MANY BODIES OF THOSE DIED IN IRAN PRESIDENT RAISI HELICOPTER CRASH HAVE BEEN BURNT AND CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED pic.twitter.com/bNUqwjSAF9 — Jessie Cooper (@VacancyKart) May 20, 2024 archive NOW Iran's President Raisi, Foreign Minister Abdollahiyan along with 2 other officials confirmed killed in helicopter crash. pic.twitter.com/PQxUO1Jbwt — Insider Corner (@insiderscorner) May 20, 2024 archive BREAKING: MANY BODIES OF THOSE DIED IN IRAN PRESIDENT RAISI HELICOPTER CRASH HAVE BEEN BURNT AND CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED pic.twitter.com/ilM0ohOmnZ — Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) May 20, 2024

Truth

It has been found that these pictures gaining traction on social media sites are of a training plane crash that happened in April 2020 near Kila Kala Abbas Abad in Iran. This crash happened due to poor weather conditions. Photos of the crash were shared by news outlets Jahan news and Rokna Press .

EBRAHIM RAISI

d. 19 May 2024

PRESIDENT OF IRAN

            President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, and his Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as well as his other officials have died in a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024. His helicopter crashed near Joffa, northwest of Tehran.

            Was it an accident or was he murdered?

            President Raisi wasn’t a popular president and had many enemies. He had only been president since 2021 and caused hell in a short time frame. He held old-fashioned views, was a tyrant, and imprisoned, tortured, and killed his civilians. Women were forced to wear a hijab and those who protested were imprisoned, attacked, and killed. Freedom of speech wasn’t permitted and citizens had to live in silence. In 1988, he was one of those responsible of having thousands of political prisoners executed. He also had the hands of thieves cut off.