The biggest news in the world in the past 24 hours was that Iranian President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian crashed in the same helicopter in East Azerbaijan Province, where East Adharbaijan Governor Ayatollah Hashem was also on board.
Raisi is a ruthless man, nicknamed the "Butcher of Tehran", who invented the famous "5-minute prosecution + sentencing" to sentence Iranians to death in 1990 when he was a prosecutor.
During this period, thousands of people were sentenced to death by his "5-minute law".
The picture below is the figure of the butcher Lacey back then:
Because of this notoriety, when the news of the crash first came out and Raisi's life and death were unknown, Iranians set off fireworks to celebrate.
Moreover, although the president is not a high ranking in Iran's power system, Raisi is generally seen as having the potential to become the supreme leader. Another recognized successor to Khamenei is his son, Khamenei's youngest son, Mujtaba Khamenei, who will succeed him once Raisi is gone.
On the other hand, it is this very President who ordered the attack on Israel the other day, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is an enemy of the Israelis.
It can be said that there are many people at home and abroad who hope that he will not come back.
Some people joked that this should be the first plane crash in human history that made everyone worry about survival.
The results did not disappoint them, according to Iranian state television, the helicopter crash site has been found, no one has survived, President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian have been killed.
The president's body has been recovered.
The spotlight of the wreckage of Iran's presidential helicopter was the Turkish Raider drone, which is equipped with an electro-optical/infrared/laser ranging vehicle and an active electronic scanning array radar (AESA), which can be used not only for intelligence reconnaissance and target acquisition (ISTAR), but also for command, control and communications missions, as well as precision strike capabilities.
In addition, the "Raider" UAV itself has 3 sets of fully automatic flight control and backup systems, which are completely automatic from taxiing, take-off, cruising to return to landing, without the need to control from the ground, and are also equipped with dual sets of artificial intelligence avionics systems for signal processing, sensor fusion and combat situation detection. AI systems can automatically detect the direction and position of aircraft without the need for a global navigation satellite system, and can make decisions based on the information captured, as well as detect targets that are invisible to the human eye.
Far from it.
Conspiracy theories are certainly indispensable when such a major event occurs, and many fingers have been pointed at Israel and US imperialism.
But I think it's more likely that the crash was a simple accident, at least with the United States and Israel. It is not the style of US imperialism to use the direct murder of a head of state, and Israel has no strong motive to get rid of Raisi.
The wrecked helicopter is an old American helicopter built in 1979, CNN reported that retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Cedric Layton said that Lacey's crash was linked to U.S. sanctions. The helicopter he was flying in was probably a Bell 212 helicopter that came out in the 60s of the last century. The Bell 212 is a twin-propeller medium multirole helicopter that first flew in 1968, originally produced by Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, and later moved to Mirabele, Quebec, Canada in 1988. Raisi's plane may have been commercially purchased by Iran's pro-Western Pahlavi regime in 1976. Since Iran was later sanctioned by the United States, it was difficult to obtain parts for such helicopters, resulting in the inability to replace the old and damaged parts.
Let's take a look at the other news.
Israeli forces blow up the Hamas tunnel to Egypt.
James Lindsay, General Counsel of the United Nations Middle East Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), was questioned in the U.S. Congress to explain and clarify rumors that UNRWA directly or indirectly supports the Hamas terrorist organization.
Two Israeli troops were killed in Rafah, and the Israeli army's losses in Gaza reached 282.
Israeli forces found the body of Benjamin, a fourth hostage, who was massacred on October 7, the day of the Hamas terrorist attacks, and then abducted into Gaza as "trophies" by Hamas.
The dispute between Israel's wartime cabinet and the prime minister tends to ease, with Deputy Prime Minister Gantz hinting that the ultimatum will be postponed, Prime Minister Netayahu and Gantz working out a hostage negotiation plan, and the finance minister harshly attacking Gantz for stabbing the Israeli army in the back.
By the way, today, that is, May 20th, there is actually another big event, not to say more, just go directly to the picture.
On May 7, Saudi Crown Prince Salman Jr. was assassinated;
On May 15, the pro-Russian Prime Minister of Slovakia was assassinated;
On May 19, Iran's president and foreign minister crashed and died at the same time;
It is said that the English word "May" in May is derived from the Maya (Maius in Latin), the goddess of spring and life in Roman mythology.
It's kind of interesting...
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