Iran president’s demise is unlikely to shake up the regime because Iranian elite’s interests lie in maintaining status quo. This includes foreign affairs
The death of any country’s president and foreign minister in a helicopter crash would make headlines around the world. But in the case of Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi and Hossein Amir Abdollahian, there is an additional complexity.
While official statements have been presenting the helicopter crash as the result of a technical accident, a very different assessment is gaining ground in Iran’s conspiratorial political culture — that this was an assassination rather than accident.
While official statements have been presenting the helicopter crash as the result of a technical accident, a very different assessment is gaining ground in Iran’s conspiratorial political culture — that this was an assassination rather than accident.