Iran buried President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday, ending several days of funerals that began shortly after his death in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
After some hesitation, the regime decided to declare Raisi a “martyr” and treat him like a religious icon, holding processions in several cities and burying him in the Imam Reza shrine in his hometown of Mashhad.
The choice of the regime’s burial site is a matter of some anger In Iran, Mr. Raisi’s lavish funeral irritated Iranians who have suffered under his administration’s disastrous economic policies. Iranians who live in poverty under a wealthy theocracy were also angered that Mr. Raisi was given a burial site near the grandfather of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The regime still managed to attract a large turnout for Raisi’s funeral procession.
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of The Israel Times (TOI) I got it. Attendance at the funeral of Iranian terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq in 2020, has since increased significantly. table of contents They saw the small funeral on Thursday as a “subliminal expression” of public sentiment against President Raisi’s regime, which has been marked by economic collapse and a brutal crackdown on dissent.
Khamenei Prayed and spoke Attending Mr. Raisi’s funeral was Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas. Ayatollah Khamenei mourned Mr. Raisi’s “martyrdom-like death,” but it is difficult to understand how Mr. Raisi was a “martyr” other than the helicopter’s poor maintenance and poor piloting choices.
The regime decided to label Raisi a “war man,” as a placard at his funeral read. Brutal President Raisi’s only “battlefield” is Iran, which, while antagonizing many of its own unarmed citizens, is cowardly backing terrorist proxies such as Hamas, Shiite militias in Iraq, and Houthi pirates in Yemen in its undeclared war against Israel and the United States. The only instances of direct military action by Iran during President Raisi’s term were: It did not work.
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Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Iranian terrorist organization, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Praised Raisi spoke of his alleged battlefield commander at the funeral on Friday of another victim of the helicopter crash, Revolutionary Guards’ Brigadier General Mehdi Mousavi.
“Martyr Raisi has indeed demonstrated unspeakable bravery in Operation True Promise. Thanks to the government’s strong diplomatic capabilities, we were able to strike at the heart of arrogance,” Salami said on Friday.
The real promise is Iran’s Failed attempts Iran plans to attack Israel with hundreds of missiles and drones in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike that killed several senior IRGC officials in Damascus, Syria, on April 13. Regime officials and state media have repeatedly claimed the strike was a major success, even though nearly all of the Iranian weapons were intercepted and damage was minimal.
Salami insisted that Iran remains undeterred after Raisi’s death and “does not fear any power”, a belligerent stance also reflected in Ayatollah Khamenei’s comments at Raisi’s funeral.
“The promise of eliminating Israel will be kept and the day will come when Palestine will stretch from the sea to the river,” Khamenei said. Said The death of the Hamas leader, Haniyeh, is an awkward moment for Hamas apologists in the West, who for the past seven months have fervently denied that “from the sea to the river” is a genocidal slogan.
An Iranian cleric delivers a sermon during a religious gathering in memory of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash, in southern Tehran, Iran, on May 23, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“The resistance of the Gazan people has impressed the world. Who would have thought that an American university would support Palestine?” Khamenei said, which was even more embarrassing for the Hamas supporter.
Khamenei and Haniyeh, along with other “leaders of the Resistance Axis”, agreed that Iran would continue to support Hamas’ brutal terrorists.
Iranian state media reported enthusiastically photograph General Salami and other IRGC officers met with representatives of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis on the sidelines of Raisi’s funeral to plan for an escalation of the war against Israel, a meeting that was reportedly also attended by two other Palestinian terrorist organizations, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Iranian media reported that the terror council discussed “the latest political, social and military developments and Operation Al-Aqsa Flooding,” the name given to the October 7 Hamas orgy of rape, kidnapping, murder and infanticide against Israeli civilians.
