Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and several other officials were found dead on Monday, hours after their helicopter crashed, state media reported.
  • Hubi@lemmy.world
    1197·
    7 months ago

    “One of the main culprits of yesterday’s tragedy is the United States, which … embargoed the sale of aircraft and aviation parts to Iran and does not allow the people of Iran to enjoy good aviation facilities,” Zarif said. “These will be recorded in the list of US crimes against the Iranian people.”

    Of course lol. I wonder how long it took him to find a way to blame it on the US.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      601·
      7 months ago

      “aboard the Bell helicopter, which Iran purchased in the early 2000s”

      If Iran was so concerned about the safety, they could have easily used a Russian helicopter which they could get parts and maintain properly. MI-8 are a dime a dozen.

      • smackjack@lemmy.world
        19·
        7 months ago

        They could have had the best helicopter in the world. They still shouldn’t have been flying it in those weather conditions.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        9·
        7 months ago

        Maybe they could have spent less on their nuclear weapons programs and more on helicopter programs if they really want working helicopters.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        424·
        7 months ago

        Sorry Iran, the US only supports one asshole in the Middle East and it ain’t you.

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
        32·
        7 months ago

        Last time they did that the US installed a brutal dictators. It’s been brutal dictators ever since.

        It’s going to stay that way until everyone has a brutal dictator and they all have a big dick measuring contest and then hopefully that’s going to be the end of the two legged apes.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
    624·
    7 months ago

    Oh shit. Fucking praying it was a mechanical accident and not an attack from Israel

    Yep, looks like it was an accident according to the article, but they still blame the US because of the embargo on aviation parts

    • Cobrachicken@lemmy.world
      691·
      7 months ago

      Well they stepped into the heli to fly over rough terrain in dense fog and bad weather. Some might call that a little bit tempting fate…

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        7 months ago

        Well they stepped into the heli to fly over rough terrain in dense fog and bad weather. Some might call that a little bit tempting fate…

        That can be hazardous in a well-maintained helicopter. Just ask Kobe.

        • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
          11·
          7 months ago

          Pretty simple really. We start off with Shefahr’s coffee that morning. At exactly 3am, we add 3 extra grains of sugar that were not supposed to be there. This in turn at 5:30am allows him 3 more seconds of his day dream about the ruzzian lady’s big big personality… that added exactly the right amount of fuel into the helicopter. You see Shefahr’s job is to refuel helicopters. Anyway, once this helicopter got into the fog, it was just a matter of pulling up hard enough and BAM! It was either this or a window at a very tall building like the ruzzians do. This is more fun because everyone thought for sure he would survive according to the earlier reports.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        625·
        7 months ago

        Aren’t there lots of folks in the comments crowing about how “the embargo is working” and such? If Americans are taking credit for it then it seems quite reasonable to blame them for it.

        • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world
          161·
          7 months ago

          I see one such comment, which is in response to Iran blaming the US, and to me reads as a sarcastic retort to a ridiculous claim by Iran

        • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
          9·
          7 months ago

          Many people say many things. Uninformed takes from randos on the internet shouldn’t be taken seriously and responded to by government officials, regardless of nationality.

          If the crash were caused by a mechanical problem, the embargo didn’t cause it. It would be much more the fault of the iranian maintance agency who let the helicopter fly despite its issues. If critical parts are unavailable, the safe choice is to ground the helicopter.

          We can’t be sure until more is known, but this seems much more likely to be controlled flight into terrain. It was foggy in the mountains. Crashes like this do happen even in the US.

    • Wahots@pawb.social
      7·
      7 months ago

      You’d have to be suicidal to fly in deep fog and rain over remote mountains. IFR in extremely bad weather in a helicopter sounds awful. In my country, helicopters are grounded for a lot less. And those are newer helicopters too, afaik.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    36·
    7 months ago

    I did a deep cleaning of my kitchen yesterday. Mostly because I saw an ant. Nice feeling seeing my kitchen sparkle. How was your weekend?