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President and foreign minister of Iran confirmed dead after helicopter crash (www.presstv.ir)

submitted 1 year ago by GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] CITRUS@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How does this affect Iran's position against the Empire? I admittedly know little of it's internal politics and I assume Raeisi isn't the strongman glue keeping the anti imperial alignment in working order like Putin, and Iran will still be able to overcome this with comparatively little internal strife to other anti imperialist nations. Such a dumb fucking way to go in a critical time, rest in peace.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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)

[–] juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean Khamenei? Khomeini is long dead.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

whoops, thanks 😬

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