Iran's President and Foreign Minister die in helicopter crash

I'm sure his death will be a big blow, but normal service should resume without interruption.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-hangs-two-women-surge-103838657.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

There are no gates, this complete and utter waste of space spent his life thinking he was god's representative. he just spent his last moments crashing into the side of some hill, and he'll soon be forgotten. What a life!

600,000 civilians died in the bombing of Germany in order to oust the nazis. No one complained at the time. Hamas prefer to expose their civilians to the same fate instead of surrender, just like the nazis. I wouldn't believe a single word issued by them.

There's plenty more places I'd have as more urgent cases. And I'm not even including Mayo in that

They came down really hard on the last wave of protests. I wouldn't blame people if they didn't have the stomach for another uprising so soon.

You're clearly unaware that FGM is widely practiced in Iran!

The "worse' countries you allude to don't have nuclear ambitions or arm terrorists such as the Houthi or Hamas, or build drones to attack western democracy.

I'm trying to remember…now this is complicated, but at least the answer to the question is easy.

Which of these three countries that you reference has never had a female Prime Minister\President:

1. India?
2. Pakistan?
3. Iran?

USA ?

The Onion on form.

What the hell are you on about?

Take it up with the UN. It is their index. No point getting your knickers in a twist just because it doesn't suit your narrative.

As I said, feel free to give them the information you have access to so that they can correct their index, rather than keeping your expertise to only boards.ie

I have a feeling the late Ebrahim Raisi and the like play the yes man for Ali Khamenei …. we will never know what Raisi's own leadership would be like …. but seeing he has daughters and a wife who is educated he may well have changed things once Khamenei was safely in the ground …. instead Raisi preceded Khamenei to be dead ….

Ultimately Iran has swung between moderates and 'hardliners' over the past 40+ years …. 10 years back the moderates were gaining ground and Hassan Rouhani was even accepted by Khamenei as necessary …. Iran was opening up and slowly but surely a lot of the more oppressive laws were coming to an end ….. until in 2017 a hardline regime came to power in the USA ….

…. not only a hardline regime but one lead by an egotistical novice …. in May 2018 Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and embarked on an anti-Iran hatefest …. culminating in the murder of General Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020 …. America was about to go to war until an unlikely ally backed up Iran and prevented the war …. Covid 19 !!! … by 2020/2021 the hardliners in Iran were back and Raisi was chosen to front for them ….

Various more moderate candidates were blocked from the presidential elections and other elections held during the period 2021-date including Ali Larijani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Rouhani and Hassan Khomeini …. reports of Ali Khamenei dying have been often the subject of news items …. and protests against compulsory Hijab and other controversial policies are common in Iran ….

I believe a more moderate government is bound to form in Iran …. something has to give …. it is clear 85 year old Ali Khamenei has run his course and his style of leadership has done Iran no favours …. in 40+ years as Supreme leader and often acting supreme leader when president Khamenei has not been very competent and has masked his limitations in oppression and 'divide and conquer' style politics …. it has kept him in power but to the detriment of Iran ….

Raisi came across as the 'loyal servant' of Khamenei … unlike other ex presidents like Rafsanjani, Khatami, Ahmadinejad and Rouhani who had fraught relationships with Khamenei …. and moved in an opposite more moderate direction …. Raisi could well have been secretly moving in a more moderate direction too …. who knows what was happening behind the scene and it has been reported there is great debate about the 'Hijab' nonsense …. many govt members want to give people greater freedom and concentrate on economic issues ….. it would be true Raisi would have looked towards the future and a more moderate policy to give something back to the people is the only way the regime could survive …. there was talks of a more straightforward military regime ….. maybe Raisi was seen as a threat if not by Khamenei then by others who wanted to take over after Khamenei …. we will prob never know for sure what killed Raisi or if it was foul play or an accident ….

Who would the regime choose as the next president would hint at the direction …. one name is obvious …. Mohammed Bajer Qalibaf …. Qalibaf is the speaker of parliament, an ex Tehran mayor, an ex cop, ex Revolutionary Guards, and a relative moderate ….. more pragmatic and not a cleric, Qalibaf could be perfect for the move towards a military regime …. but Qalibaf has enemies mainly within the far right Paydari and other far right parties ….

If Iran's next president is Qalibaf then it is a signal to something more moderate I believe …. if it is Ali Khamenei's son or some other hardline cleric like Ahmad Khatami … not to be confused with moderate ex president Mohammed Khatami …. then one can expect something that continues what has been ruling Iran since 2021 ….. but even Khamenei #2 or Ahmad Khatami would have to fix the economy and give some concessions to the people to prolong their regime which is stuck in an Iran-Iraq wartime rut ….

The other factor is the return of a hardline regime in the USA lead by the vehemently anti-Iran Trump …. Trump and the warmongering hardliners backing him would almost certainly wage a war on Iran within a year of coming to power no matter who is in govt there …. I cannot see Iran lying down in front of Trump and handing the country over to the likes of him no matter what …. ending compulsory Hijab, separating over-zealous church from state, etc. is not the same as being a slave to America …. even the Shah that is Pahlavi did not submit entirely as a slave to America and actually wanted to break away from being a client of America by the 1960s and 1970s …. the US has had a habit of messing up positive relationships with Iran's moderates …. usually when one president did a deal and another ill-informed usually novice comes along and undoes that …. indeed Trump scuppered the moderates in Iran and brought entities like Paydari to the fore …. an Iran war could break up Iran and allow some regions to fall into the hands of hardliners that would make Paydari look like [Persian] pussycats ….. namely ISIS, Jundullah, and IS-Khorasan …. plus the Taliban will want to take advantage ….

Trump sadly is a man who thinks he knows it all …. but knows very little …. Trump has brought back a cause for Iran's hardliners that was quenched during the superior Obama's term …. Biden sadly did nothing much in trying to improve things with Iran due to being preoccupied with Ukraine and Gaza … as well as the fact hardliners control Iran thanks to Trump's stupidity ….

Iran's future depends on who is in power in America as much as who is in power in Iran …. that is the bottom line …. let's hope both countries do not see the return of hardliners and that 2024 will see the pendulum swing back in favour of moderates as people see the unblessed fruits of hardliner far right regimes worldwide and what they really mean ….

You're right, it wasn't good news, it was great news! No one on that Ali Kopter was any loss to humanity.