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Laxtonto

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  1. Makes the conspiracy theory about this not being an accident blaze that much brighter…
  2. And there is now fertile ground for all sorts of conspiracy theories.... Raisi was looking to "retire" Khamenei to take over and so he had an "accident"... Raisi had an accident because Khamenei son wanted to be next in line, but Raisi was in the way Raisi was taken out by the Iranian freedom fighters and then we have the jews or the great satan did it! mantra The instability of the election that has little transparency and hand-picked candidates make the next 60 days or so fertile ground for continued civil unrest. Things will really go off the rails if someone tries to go after Khamenei himself. Successful or not, it would most likely ignite the entire country into an uprising that would be a bloodbath on both sides.
  3. What will be interesting in all of this is that Raisi was the most likely to succeed Khamenei with the Foreign Secretary being the next man up for president. Two of the top hardliners died and even though the state doesn't want to admit to it, it will have a major impact on internal politics in Iran for years to come. That is a pretty serious power vacuum, and all we are is the death of an old man from having a much more sympathetic revolutionary environment for the Persians.
  4. Not 100% if this is accurate... but
  5. So it looks like Turkey sent them a drone and the drone has found the wreckage and are directing the search party towards the crash. They are live streaming .... My guess, after how long it has been and how cold/wet it is up there, anyone that may have survived impact is dead anyways...
  6. Only took like 4 hours but...
  7. All the news has now shifted to we will know in 2 or 3 hours and that the rumors they have found and investigated the site are "incorrect" at this time... Screams to me that they are all dead and are going to try and lock down everything they can and announce it late at night (its like 8 or so Iranian time right now). There are already reports of celebrations and fireworks from pockets of folks celebrating his death...
  8. FYI... open the tweet and hit translate....
  9. So how is it a hard landing when they can't get in contact with the craft afterward? That is a crash.. My guess is that it will come out that they crashed into the mountain, much like the Kobe Bryant situation, and it was tied to pilot error and poor weather conditions... The tin foil hat contingent will say that Mossad used their satellite-mounted directed EMP ray and used it to force the helicopter to crash in the mountains...
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