‘Far from reality’: Armed Forces debunk new speculations on Raisi’s death
Iran’s Armed Forces in a statement on Saturday dismissed new speculations on the death of former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi after he was killed in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran in May last year. The statement said that an extensive investigation conducted by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran had concluded that “merely complicated weather and geographical conditions of the region” had caused the crash in a mountainous area in Iran’s northwest.
It dismissed as “far from reality” any speculations about technical failures, sabotage, terrorist attacks, explosions, or electronic warfare.
The statement said that the unfounded claims in the social media on the death of Raisi arise from ignorance, lack of knowledge, or are made for specific purposes.
The Armed Forces’ reaction came after Mojtaba Mousavi, brother of the head of Raisi’s security team, Mehdi Mousavi, in an interview said that his brother had been opposed to the trip to Azerbaijan border “but at the insistence of the president’s office, he finally fulfilled his inherent duty.”
Other less known officials also recently claimed that “electronic warfare and cyberattacks” might have played a role in the tragic incident.
Late president Raisi along with Mehdi Mousavi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other dignitaries lost their lives after their helicopter crashed into the mountains in East Azarbaijan Province on May 19.