In its latest article on Thursday, May 23, 2024, the newspaper "Islamic Republican" published in Tehran, reported on human factors in the helicopter crash and the death of Ebrahim Raisi, president of Iran and his companions.
This newspaper strongly rejected the involvement of weather factors in the crash of Raeesi's helicopter and wrote: "Now all minds are busy with bold speculations about the accident's conspiracy".
The article say: "The establishment of Israeli military, intelligence and telecommunication facilities on the border wall of the Republic of Azerbaijan, emphasizes the possibility of Israel's involvement in the downing of the President's helicopter."
This strange article, also in a newspaper that is considered Ali Khamenei's tribune, appeared only two days after the revelations of Ali Javanmardi, a political activist and independent journalist.
On Tuesday, May 21, Ali Jovanmardi announced in a live program that human factors were involved in the crash of Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter. In this program, he rejected the Islamic Republic's claim that bad weather conditions were the cause of the helicopter crash.
Of course, unlike the Islamic Republic newspaper, which mentions "foreign countries" as the cause of the death and downing of the helicopter of Ebrahim Raeesi, Javanmdari points the finger of accusation towards the IRGC and Mojteba Khamenei, the son of Ali Khamenei.
In another part of the article, auothur adds: "The fact that out of the three Iranian helicopters returning from the border area, only the helicopter carrying Raisi had an accident, rules out the bad weather and strengthens the possibility of a conspiracy."
This article also mentions two claims made by the technical experts of the regime regarding the crash of Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter: "First, the helicopter exploded in the air and then fell. So it can be clearly stated that the helicopter fell due to external or internal interference."
It is worth mentioning that whenever Ali Khamenei wants to express his opinion on sensitive issues in the newspapers, he publishes articles in "Ettela'at or Islamic Republic" newspapers. Therefore, these two newspapers are known as the tribune of Ali Khamenei.
Of course, the newspaper of the Islamic Republic refers to the claims of some other experts of the regime, and in the words of this group, it reports:"disruption and failure of radar and navigation equipment due to human sabotage".
The author of the article adds: "There is no doubt that the helicopter crash was caused by human factors and not weather conditions, but we have to wait for the final investigation to know how it happened."
In the end, the newspaper criticizes the executive and security officials of Iran and writes: "What this event showed us was the basic weakness of the planners of the presidential trip and their inattention to safety points, the weakness of Iran's navigation, and the severe weakness in the security sector against foreign conspiracies."
Of course, the author of this article forgot to mention that this is not just a new weakness, but there has been no such thing as intelligence protection in Iran for years.
When the US, in cooperation with Israel, can easily kill Qassem Soleimani, the commander-in-chief of the Quds Force, or the Israeli Defense Force intercepts the top-secret meeting of the top commanders of the IRGC in the Iranian embassy in Damascus and kills them all in an airstrike, or kills Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of the Iran's nuclear program, in the heart of Iran with a fully automatic weapon that was controlled from Israel's war room in Jerusalem, so there is no longer anything called security and intelligence protection in Iran, which this newspaper regrets.
Report: Daranpar
