After Ebrahim Raisi was confirmed dead in a helicopter crash, there are several questions about the future of Iran.
Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province, and five others, according to Iranian state media IRNA. The crash marks the latest in a series of major leadership losses for the major Middle Eastern power amid unprecedented tensions in the region.A man holds a portrait of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a candlelight vigil outside the Embassy of Iran in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 20, 2024.
The most noted moment in Raisi’s career was his role in the 1988 mass execution of members of the leftist People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, communists, and other leftists. After the MEK joined with Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War and invaded Iran in 1988, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the mass execution of thousands of prisoners affiliated with, or adjacent to, the group. Raisi was one of the members of the four-man “death committee,” earning him the nickname the “Butcher of Tehran.
“One of the main culprits of yesterday’s tragedy is the United States, which … embargoed the sale of aircraft and aviation parts to Iran and does not allow the people of Iran to enjoy good aviation facilities,” Zarif said,Images of the crash were posted on social media, showing the charred helicopter entirely destroyed. Though burned, the bodies of the passengers were soonThe helicopter was a Bell 212, the civilian version of the American Vietnam War-era Huey.
This means that one of the most likely consequences of Raisi’s death will be a future legitimacy crisis as Iran increasingly comes to resemble the hereditary monarchy overthrown in 1979,. Mojtaba Khomeini hasn’t been in the public eye to the extent of his father, meaning he would likely go into power without a semblance of popular legitimacy.
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