This weekend, a helicopter carrying Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, its Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and a number of other Iranian officials, made a “hard landing” under foggy conditions somewhere in the northwest part of the country.
Yep, a “hard landing”. That’s what the state-controlled media said.
Well, I guess it all depends on how you define “hard” and “landing”.
From Parisa Hafezi and Yomna Mohamed’s article for Reuters:
Now that’s a “hard landing” if there ever was one.
Incidentally, the location of the crash, northwest Iran, is the closest part of the country to Israel.
How long, do you suppose, it will be before Israel is blamed for the crash? And – speaking honestly – how certain are we that Israel had nothing to do with it?
If – IF – Israel has any involvement, it is the message of messages to the Supreme Leader of Iran, ali khamenei. If Israel can take out Raisi, it can take him out too.
Put another way: if Iran has any serious reason to suspect such involvement, it would, I assume, cause khamenei to think twice – ok, three times, maybe a lot more times – before launching any more attacks against Israel… or increasing its support of Iran’s proxies (e.g. hamas, hezbollah) in their attacks.
“Hard landings” can happen again.
