Ebrahim Raisi and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the president’s husband, were honored on Wednesday at the following of a week-long funeral service in Iran, where dozens chanted” Death to America”! and” Death to Israel”! in honor of the late leaders.
Iran’s” high head” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei physically led the blessings on Wednesday, praising Raisi as “noble and dedicated” and lamenting his untimely death.
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The images that the American media does not want the world to view include the president’s funeral procession in an# Iran image. twitter.com/iP1Wj2frip
— IRNA News Agency ( @IrnaEnglish ) May 22, 2024
The overcrowding in the Tehran funeral procession has hampered the movement of the vehicle carrying the bodies of President# Raisi’s martyrs ‘ helicopter crash. photograph. twitter.com/9qx4diQW4Y
— IRNA News Agency ( @IrnaEnglish ) May 22, 2024
Raisi, Amir- Abdollahian, and six people died on Sunday in a plane crash as they attempted to return house from a political commitment in local Azerbaijan. The circumstances of the crash have been revealed by Iranian authorities, but they have not officially indicated that they do not think it was an accident because it took place in a mountainous forest area during icy conditions. Why the government’s aircraft was permitted to travel in a lot of clouds and rain is still a mystery at press time.
Iran held its second death for the authorities in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, the Egyptian state where the plane crashed, on Tuesday. On that occasion, Iranian state advertising sources claimed that “millions” convened to hear to , Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi recognize the late president and top minister. A “millions-strong” crowd gathered for Raisi, according to Iranian state channel PressTV, who once more claimed on Wednesday.
The Persian Islamist regime’s images contrast sharply with the reports that Iranians celebrated Raisi’s dying in public on Sunday and Monday. Unknown people reportedly threw fireworks and shared sweets after Raisi’s death was confirmed, a sign of his harsh, violent legacy. In the community, Egyptian exiles boldly celebrated his fate.
Iranians are obtaining videos showing Iranians hysteriously celebrating the announcement of President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter fall, according to Iran International. photograph. twitter.com/XRUVDJcLeQ
— Iran International English ( @IranIntl_En ) May 19, 2024
Vahid Majid, the head of Iran’s cyber police, announced on Tuesday that his organization would begin looking into individuals who had posted “false and demeaning” content about Raisi online. Iranians frequently posted comedic cartoons on Sunday and Monday mocking Raisi’s death, including quips that suggested the Iranian government would blame Israel for the plane accident.
According to some information on Wednesday, Persian citizens were sent ominous mobile phone calls pledging to be present at the event in Tehran. This was an indication that the government needed more pressure to pressure Iranians into showing up in large numbers.
Raisi, a theologian by education, spent much of his career in Egyptian elections as a counsel, ensuring the deaths of hundreds of peaceful dissidents. Raisi was a part of Iran’s “death income” in the 1980s, where he is believed to possess facilitated the murder of , between , 5, 000 and 30, 000 , political prisoners in 1988. During his administration, which began in 2021, Raisi focused his government on killing women’s rights and student protesters outraged by the September 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini, a 22- year- aged woman beaten to death because the Persian “morality police” accused her of wearing her veil wrong.  , A United Nations report published in March estimated , that Raisi’s government killed more than 550 people in the Mahsa Amini uprising.
According to Khamenei,” Dear Raeisi did not know fatigue,” during his officiating of the president’s funeral prayers.
A funeral video from Wednesday’s funeral showed mourners yelling” Death to America”! following Khamenei’s prayer. Chants of” Death to Israel”! followed remarks by Hamas “political” head Ismail Haniyeh, who was invited to address the crowd.
Ebrahim# Raisi and his entourage attend the funeral procession of Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh and his entourage in Tehran. pic. twitter.com/RBQwDniFCf
— IRNA News Agency ( @IrnaEnglish ) May 22, 2024
Hamas, a Sunni jihadist terrorist organization, relies heavily on Iranian funding to bankroll its mass abductions, rocket attacks, and slaughters. A Hamas spokesman claimed on October 7 that the organization had “direct backing” from Iran for their attack, which saw the killing of an estimated 1,200 people, the abduction of 250 others, and the widespread atrocities against Israeli civilians that day.
Khamenei reiterated Iran’s genocidal intentions to destroy Israel at a private reception prior to the funeral, which he also offered Haniyeh.
According to reports, Khamenei reportedly told Haniyeh,” God’s promise will be fulfilled in the formation of the Palestinian state from the river to the sea.” The Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, the bodies of water that border Israel at all times, are referenced by the phrase” From the river to the sea.”
Hamas Chief to Iran’s Supreme Leader: The formation of a Palestinian state from the river to the sea will fulfill God’s promise. pic. twitter.com/jQIDojbMI2
— IRNA News Agency ( @IrnaEnglish ) May 22, 2024
Khamenei also used the occasion to applaud the chaos that Hamas sympathizers have caused on college campuses in America.
Who would have thought that the flag of Palestine would be raised in US universities one day and that slogans in support of Palestine would be displayed there? Khamenei was cited as saying to Haniyeh by the regime-affiliated Tasnim News Agency.
In addition to Haniyeh, PressTV reported that senior representatives of another Iranian proxy terror organization, Hezbollah, were also present at the event.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ( RFE/RL ) noted that, while Iran’s proxy terror groups were amply represented, no Western head of government was present at the funeral, nor were any of Raisi’s living predecessors, including his direct predecessor, former President Hassan Rouhani. Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who attempted to run against Raisi in the 2021 election but did not receive” supreme leader” approval, was also absent.
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