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I doubt it will, beyond sparking anger depending on the results of the investigation; AFAICT most people in Iran are anti-imperialist, and Khamenei is still there (although I'm not well informed on the extent of his political power)
I'm not well informed either, but every Western media outlet has suddenly decided to condemn Raeisi as "the executioner of the regime", "the butcher of Tehran" etc. Meanwhile, they've started pushing the narrative that in the upcoming elections to replace him, the current regime will collapse and "democratic forces" will prevail, because of the protests that were going on a while ago.
This tells me three things:
a) Raeisi might or might not have been a decent guy, but he was most likely quite popular.
b) The current Iranian government will come out of this crisis just fine.
c) The West will be trying to incite another color revolution in Iran in the coming weeks/months.
In case you are interested, Ben Norton has a good video on Raeisi's anti imperialists and anti colonialists policies. I added the video here https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/4300675
I will look at it. Thank you comrade!
Raisi was one of the people who executed leftists en masse during the leftist crackdown fiasco. Hardly anyone you should give a fuck about
Do you mean Khamenei? Khomeini is long dead.
whoops, thanks 😬