Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, forth with the country’s adopted abbot and others, were begin asleep Monday morning hours afterwards their helicopter comatose in close fog in a aerial arena of the country’s northwest, accompaniment media reported. Raisi was 63.

The blast comes at badly a agitated time for the Middle East amidst the Israel-Hamas war, during which Raisi, beneath Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, launched an aberrant drone-and-missile advance on Israel aloof aftermost month. Beneath Raisi, Iran has accomplished uranium afterpiece than anytime to weapons-grade levels, added ascent astriction with the West as Tehran additionally supplied bomb-carrying drones to Russia for its war in Ukraine and connected arming proxy groups in the Mideast such as Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

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Raisi was additionally in ability through years of above protests adjoin Iran’s cardinal Shiite Muslim theocracy, of which he was a key member, over the country’s ailing abridgement and women’s rights.

All of those factors accomplish the moment added acute for Tehran and the approaching of the country, but Iranians were bound reassured that activity would go on as it has by the country’s absolute top power, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Under the Islamic republic’s administering system, the admiral is not the ultimate accommodation maker, and all added government officials, forth with the aggressive and all law administration agencies, acknowledgment ultimately to Khamenei, who at 85 has disqualified over the country back 1989.

Given that ability structure, CBS News’ Seyed Bathaei in Tehran said it was absurd that Raisi’s afterlife would atom any political crisis.

Under Iran’s architecture — in abode back the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought the cardinal Islamic clerics to ability — the carnality admiral will accept Raisi’s role until new elections are captivated aural 50 days. But alone candidates accustomed by the cardinal clerics are eligible, so there’s little adventitious of a above change in the advance of Iran’s behavior or politics.

Khamenei bidding his condolences for Raisi in a bulletin conveyed by accompaniment media on Monday morning, in which he additionally appear a five-day aching aeon and accepted that Carnality Admiral Mohammad Mokhber was dispatch into the role until elections are held.

Bodies recovered from helicopter blast site

State TV gave no actual account for the blast that occurred in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province.

The Iranian Red Crescent said the bodies of all the victims were recovered from the blast site.

Among the asleep was Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, who was 60. The helicopter additionally agitated the governor of the East Azerbaijan province, forth with added admiral and bodyguards, Iran’s state-run IRNA account bureau said.
Turkish authorities appear bombinate video aboriginal Monday assuming a calefaction signature at a armpit in the wilderness that they “suspected to be accident of helicopter.” The coordinates listed in the video put the blaze some 12 afar south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border, on the ancillary of a steep, forested mountain.

Video appear after Monday morning by IRNA showed what the bureau declared as the blast armpit on a abrupt hillside.

Soldiers speaking in the bounded Azeri accent can be heard saying: “There it is, we begin it.”

Iran’s government flies a array of helicopters, but all-embracing sanctions accomplish it difficult to access genitalia for abounding of them. Its aggressive air agile additionally abundantly dates aback to afore the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Who succeeds Raisi and what happens next?

The absolute baton has fatigued that the business of Iran’s government will abide unphased. Under the Iranian constitution.

First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber had already started accepting calls from admiral and adopted governments afore Khamenei accepted on Monday that he was replacing Raisi, accompaniment media reported.

The Iranian chiffonier issued a account afterwards convening Monday alliance to chase Raisi’s aisle and abacus that, “with the advice of God and the people, there will be no botheration with administration of the country.”

The chiffonier said the “hard-working president” had been “martyred” and vowed to accumulate the government active “without the aboriginal disruption.”

Raisi, a hard-liner, had been beheld as a protégé of Khamenei and some analysts believed he could alike alter the octogenarian absolute baton back the ayatollah dies or accomplish down.
The alone added actuality to accept been appropriate as a accessible abutting absolute baton is Mojtaba Khameini, the 55-year-old son of Khamenei. However, some accept aloft apropos over the anticipation of the position actuality taken — for alone the third time back the 1979 revolution.

Raisi’s admiral – agitated times for Iran

Raisi won Iran’s aftermost presidential acclamation in 2021 — a vote that saw the everyman assembly in the Islamic republic’s history and which was absolved as a awful absolute political exercise by the U.S. and added Western nations.

Raisi was accustomed by the U.S. in allotment over his captivation in the accumulation beheading of bags of political prisoners in 1988 at the end of the blood-soaked Iran-Iraq war.

In 2022, he told “60 Minutes” that the sanctions, which imposed beneath above Admiral Donald Trump and maintained by Admiral Biden, were “tyrannical.”

“The new administering in the U.S., they affirmation that they are altered from the Trump administration,” Raisi told Lesley Stahl. “They accept said it in their letters to us. But we haven’t witnessed any changes in reality.”

Meanwhile, accumulation protests in the country accept raged intermittently for years — the best contempo and austere of them sparked by the 2022 afterlife of Mahsa Amini in badge custody. She was bedfast for actionable the country’s austere dress cipher for women, for allegedly cutting her hijab, or Islamic headscarf, improperly. The months-long aegis crackdown in acknowledgment to the demonstrations dead added than 500 bodies and saw over 22,000 detained.

In March, a United Nations analytic console begin Iran was amenable for the “physical violence” that led to Amini’s death.

Raisi is the additional Iranian admiral to die in office. In 1981, a bomb bang dead Admiral Mohammad Ali Rajai in the anarchic canicule afterwards the revolution

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