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'Butcher of Tehran' Dies in Helicopter Crash: What Next For Iran & War?

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Sports, News, Society & Culture

3.7651 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On the 19th of May, a military helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, crashed near Varzaqan, Iran killing everyone onboard. The world has been shocked by what Raisi’s death could mean for the country and the region. Piers Morgan speaks to University of Tehran Professor, Mohammad Marandi, who furiously defends Raisi as a popular figure and calls out the hypocrisy of western governments. Piers’ in-studio guest, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus retorts that “The Butcher of Tehran is a good description” for Raisi, and claims that the Islamic regime in Iran is the source of terrorism all around the world. Mustafa Bargouti reacts to Jonathan Conricus’ discussion with Piers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The president of Iran is dead.

0:01.7

Ibrahim Raiisi was killed in a helicopter crash yesterday, along with the country's foreign

0:05.9

minister and several others.

0:07.6

Risi was a hard-lying cleric who was close to Iran's supreme leader.

0:10.9

Many believed he was even his likely successor.

0:13.6

Racy was also part of the so-called Death Commission, which ordered the extrajudicial executions

0:18.5

of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.

0:21.6

His current Iranian regime stands accused of sowing chaos in the Middle East through his

0:26.1

triple-H proxies, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas.

0:30.1

So as the Middle East and the world a safer place today, and insignificant developments elsewhere,

0:34.5

could Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu face arrest for war crimes

0:38.1

after major announcements from the International Criminal Court? We'll debate that in a moment.

0:43.2

But first, with a view from Iran, Professor Mohamed Miranda Miranda, Mirandi from University of Tehran.

0:47.5

Professor, thank you for coming back on uncensored. First of all, your reaction to the death of the

0:52.5

president yesterday?

1:00.4

Obviously, everyone that I know is in mourning.

1:02.9

He was a very popular figure.

1:08.8

He was a very humble person, very different from the description that you gave.

1:15.5

He worked very hard for the deprived, the working class, the disenfranchised.

1:19.4

He traveled from city to city, from town to town.

1:23.3

He was constantly visiting the different provinces.

1:29.7

And that's why he was so popular among, especially, as I said, the more disenfranchised and middle-class, lower-middle-class Iranians.

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