The Biden administration's State Department should have ignored Iranian President Ebrahim Raise's death rather than issue a statement memorializing him.
on Monday asserting, “The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
True, diplomatic courtesy would justify a private note of condolence on the death of foreign minister Abdollahian. But there was no need to memorialize Raisi publicly. A far more appropriate response would have been to simply ignore Raisi’s death. Raisi wasn’t just an ardent enemy of the United States but was a leading agitator in that pursuit. As former Trump administration State Department official Gabriel Noronha, “The State Department sent its condolences on the death of Ebrahim Raisi.
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