What Raisi’s Death Means for Iran’s Future
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:47.1 | Welcome to the show. On Sunday, Iranians were jolted by some shocking news. A helicopter carrying their president, foreign minister, and several other officials had crash-landed in a |
| 0:52.9 | remote mountainous area. |
| 0:55.0 | Within a day, it emerged there were no survivors. |
| 0:58.1 | President Ibrahim Raeisi was dead. |
| 1:01.1 | The accident has plunged Iranian politics into turmoil. |
| 1:04.9 | Now, you could say that Raeci was only the second most powerful person in Iran, |
| 1:09.6 | but he was seen by many observers as the |
| 1:12.5 | likeliest successor to the country's supreme leader, Ali Khomeini, who is 85 years old and |
| 1:18.9 | believed to be in poor health. Raisi was just 63. The Iran is moving quickly. It named its |
| 1:25.6 | vice president, Muhammad Mokber, as its acting president, |
| 1:29.2 | and announced that it will hold elections on the 28th of June. And the accident comes at a tricky |
| 1:34.9 | moment. Iran is locked in a shadow war with Israel, and just last month launched its first |
| 1:40.8 | ever direct attack on that country. At home, Iran faces growing anger at the |
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