Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown.
A great deal of fog in the area, but they'll blame the Israelis in any case. They formed an emergency government, so there's more to this story.
Edit: It's now nighttime, and the rescue teams have yet to reach the crash site.
The Iranian Red Crescent has reported that some of their own rescue teams are lost.
Locals suggest that the area becomes a hunting ground for wolves and bears at night, raising concerns that if the crew is injured, nature may take its course.
The Revolutionary Guard has gone into mourning.
According to the Iranian news agency IRNA, the helicopter's passengers were:
▪️Iran's President Ibrahim Raisi
▪️Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahiyan
▪️Ayatollah Al-Hashemi, Imam of Tabriz Mosque
▪️Governor of East Azerbaijan Province Malik Rahmati
“I just wanna debate this guy, but you know– and I’m gonna demand a drug test too, by the way,” Trump said as the audience cheered. “I am. No, I really am. I don’t want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite.”
Donald pulled the same "they need a drug test" stunt on Hillary Clinton in 2016 before a debate, proving that this silly ole drama queen needs a new bag of tricks.
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Negotiating with enemies is actually a good thing. Maybe they saw Israel's precise targeting vs their failed barrage of rockets that got shot down and figured that the threat of war with the west isn't all what they make it out to be.
If you ever watch the movie Oppenheimer, it used used a lot of poetic license. You know where he was when the bomb went off? In a tank, with extra steel. He motored out to ground zero and remotely took a soil sample.
With his close friend Richard Nixon's ascendance to the presidency, Graham advised that Vietnamization was the key to victory in his "Confidential Missionary Plan for Ending the Vietnam War." In addition, while he publicly gave lip service to being apolitical, Graham organized massive events that provided veiled support for Nixon and the war in Vietnam.
Left out that this wasn't done to advance some liberal agenda, but pass disaster relief. Literally the most basic bipartisan shit congress can do. That Johnson seems incapable of doing.
I'm not the best at math, but if she's averaging 20% in the primaries (after dropping out)...even a quarter of those folks voting third party or staying home means you're toast, bro.
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