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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1968 - IRANIAN PRESIDENT DEAD IN HELICOPTER CRASH

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

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4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Iran’s president is dead in a helicopter crash; the International Criminal Court tries to bring charges against the Prime Minister of Israel; and Americans remain dour on the economy, even as Joe Biden panders for black votes at Morehouse College.   Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE   Ep.1968   - - -    DailyWire+:   Introducing the Newest Daily Wire Venture: Emerson - A Premium Multivitamin for Men: https://bit.ly/3WlNWgs   Watch the brand new animated sitcom Mr. Birchum only on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/4akO7wC   Leftist Tears Tumbler is BACK! Subscribe to get your FREE one today: https://bit.ly/4capKTB    Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw    - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   Birch Gold - Open an IRA in GOLD and get a FREE infokit. Text "BEN" to 989898. http://www.birchgold.com/Ben   Policygenius - Get your free life insurance quote & see how much you could save: http://policygenius.com/SHAPIRO   Beam - Get 40% off for a limited time! http://www.ShopBeam.com/BEN   Blinds - Exclusive Discount for my Listeners! Tell them The Ben Shapiro Show sent you! https://www.blinds.com/   Robinhood - Learn more by downloading the Robinhood app or by visiting http://www.Robinhood.com   *Returns are not guaranteed. Interest is earned on uninvested cash swept from your brokerage account to program banks. The cash sweep program is offered through Robinhood Financial LLC. Terms apply. Robinhood is not a bank. Bigger instant deposits are only available if your instant deposit status is in good standing. Robinhood Financial LLC (member SIPC) is a registered broker-dealer.   - - -   Socials:   Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53   Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ   Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd   Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, yesterday, a great tragedy occurred when a helicopter dropped from the sky in Azerbaijan

0:05.3

carrying the president of Iran as well as the foreign minister of Iran. It's a tragedy that the

0:11.1

helicopter was destroyed. What happened to the people inside? Different story entirely.

0:17.0

There's some of the worst people on the planet. I feel bad for obviously all of the other people

0:20.6

who are in the helicopter, but the president of Iran was a butcher. His foreign minister was also a butcher. They both died in this particular crash. The media have a very difficult time with this sort of stuff because they're not sure whether they're supposed to call terror supporters austere religious scholars, as we saw with the former ISIS leader, Al-Zar Kali. So Reuters put out the following tweet, Ibrahim Razi, who died aged

0:43.3

63, rose through Iran's theocracy from hardline prosecutor to uncompromising president as he

0:48.6

burnished his credentials to position himself to become the next Supreme Leader.

0:52.0

Oh, the absolute dedication in heroism must have taken for a man literally named,

0:57.7

nicknamed the butcher of Tehran to have risen inside a butchering murderous Iranian terror

1:04.8

regime.

1:05.6

Wow.

1:06.6

Excellent coverage, Reuters.

1:07.9

I mean, they're just doing the memes now.

1:09.9

Just to introduce you to the president, Ibrahim Reisi, who just died in this helicopter crash.

1:17.0

He became, according to Tablet Magazine, an Islamist ideologues a teen studying in seminary and KOM.

1:22.4

After the Islamic Revolution, when he was 19 years old and lacking any university education,

1:26.5

he was then appointed as a prosecutor, rising over the following four decades to fill the positions of Attorney General,

1:31.2

Deputy Chief Justice, and most recently Chief Justice of Iran's theocratic dictatorship.

1:35.4

Most notably, Raisi was one of four members of a death committee responsible for the 1988

1:39.4

execution of thousands of Iranian prisoners of conscience in the space of a few months.

1:43.8

The ideologically motivated mass executions constituted both a crime against humanity

1:47.5

as well as genocide, a cleansing of religious infidels, according to international human rights expert,

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