After the death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, what’s next?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has been killed in a helicopter crash, along with the foreign minister and six others. Now, the government will have to carry out elections during a turbulent moment for Iran and the region. How will Raisi’s death play out?
In this episode:
- Resul Serdar Atas (@ResulSerdarAtas), Senior International Correspondent, Al Jazeera English
- Maziar Motamedi (@MotamediMaziar), Al Jazeera Journalist
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Episode credits:
This episode was produced by David Enders, Zaina Badr, Manahil Naveed, and Chloe K. Li, with Catherine Nouhan and our host, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, how will the death of President Ibrahim Reisi play out in Iran? |
| 0:18.0 | His death for Iran means a lot. |
| 0:21.6 | We're expecting his dad to create a power vacuum. |
| 0:26.6 | Who Reisi was and how his successor will be chosen at a turbulent moment for Iran and the region. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Malika Bilal and this is the region. I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:45.4 | The first hint that something was wrong |
| 0:47.7 | came on Sunday evening, |
| 0:49.3 | when the government announced that it had lost contact |
| 0:52.1 | with a helicopter carrying the president in northwest Iran. |
| 0:58.2 | I received a call from my producer saying that there are some of the reports suggesting that |
| 1:05.9 | the president's helicopter is involved in a crash. |
| 1:11.3 | That's Rissur Sardar, senior international correspondent for Al Jazeera. |
| 1:16.3 | He's currently in Tehran. |
| 1:18.7 | The helicopter carrying Iranian President Ibrahim Raiisi and the foreign minister |
| 1:22.4 | has gone missing in bad weather conditions in the north of the country. |
| 1:28.3 | Immediately, I headed toward the office of Al Jazeera in Tehran. |
| 1:33.3 | And then shortly after that, we have seen that the Iranian authorities called on nation |
| 1:39.3 | to come together in the religious centers and to pray for the health and safety of the president, |
| 1:47.0 | the foreign minister and the others that were in the helicopter. |
| 1:51.0 | This particular helicopter reportedly had President Raeisi had the foreign minister, |
| 1:57.0 | Hossein Amir Abdulyan, East Azerbaijan, governor, the Friday prayers leader of Tabriz, |
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