The discharge of recent particulars of the deadly helicopter flight on Could 19 which killed Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, and Overseas Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is ruling out dangerous climate, machine failure, alerts interference, on-board bomb or ground-fired missile as the reason for the crash. Iranian civilian, navy and clerical officers are additionally excluding Israeli or US involvement.
As a substitute, Raisi’s chief of employees, Gholam-Hossein Esmaeili, a civilian lawyer and Raisi loyalist for a few years, has described a sequence of particulars, previous and following the incident, which trace at suicide homicide by one of many pilots of the presidential plane.
Esmaeili made his remarks on Tehran tv on the night of Could 21. He revealed that Raisi’s helicopter was flying second in a convoy of three plane, whereas Esmaeili was flying third, behind Raisi, when his helicopter “out of the blue disappeared”. The pilot of the third helicopter then “determined to circle and return to seek for the President’s helicopter”.
Esmaeili additionally mentioned that tried calls to Raisi, Amir-Abdollahian, and the pilot of their plane, Colonel Seyed Taher Mostafavi, all failed to supply a response. Nonetheless, two calls had been answered by Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-Hashem, the one passenger who appeared to outlive the influence and hearth of the crash, however died quickly after. Al-Hashem represents the clerical energy in East Azerbaijan province. Based on Esmaeili, Al-Hashem mentioned “our state of affairs isn’t good, the copter has crashed into the valley”.
Al-Hashem’s comment seems to rule out a missile strike or bomb explosion.
Esmaeili’s statements rule out hostile climate situations and the sight or sound of mid-air explosion.
An Iranian Military Common Employees assertion, issued final Friday Could 24, after investigation of radar, radio, different telecommunications, and the plane particles, has confirmed regular navigation and communications between the helicopter pilots and with floor controllers. “Gunshot wounds or comparable ones haven’t been seen within the remaining elements of the helicopter,” the report claims, “within the conversations of the management tower with the flight crew, no suspicious circumstances have been noticed.”
The implication can be that there have been no sudden machine failures triggering lack of pilot management and indicated by both pilot or computerized instrument misery alerts.
As a result of the Raisi plane disappeared into clouds forward of Esmaeili, and there was no warmth burst from missile or bomb strike, satellite tv for pc pictures by Russian, US, or Chinese language satellites are unlikely to have recorded what occurred. The alerts intelligence collected by Russia and the US can be unlikely to have recorded greater than Esmaeili has admitted.
That leaves the Russian trace printed by Konstantin Malofeyev, proprietor and editor-in-chief of Tsargrad, citing a retired Russian Air Drive basic. Based on Main Common Vladimir Popov (retired), “the primary risk to prime officers throughout air journey comes from themselves”.
The mainstream Russian press, the Moscow navy bloggers, and RT, the state propaganda organ, have all prevented evaluation of the incident forensics and hypothesis of motive; they’ve caught to repeating official Iranian information releases. RT’s model of Esmaeili’s statements is considerably shorter and fewer comprehending than the Islamic Republic Information Company (IRNA) report and the Occasions of India video.
“Esmaeili’s assertion factors to Raisi’s pilot making the choice to crash,” feedback a western navy supply. “Why order the opposite two plane to ascend and get above the clouds, after which not accomplish that himself?”
The chief pilot of the presidential plane was Colonel Seyed Taher Mostafavi; his co-pilot was Colonel Mohsen Daryanush. Their chief mechanic was Behrouz Ghadimi.
The presidential helicopter flight crew who died within the incident, left to proper: technician Behrouz Ghadimi, pilot Seyed Taher Mostafavi, and co-pilot Mohsen Daryanush.
The Russian navy bloggers have remained under-informative and non-committal. The Militarist and Boris Rozhin’s Colonel Cassad have republished in Russian the Iranian Common Employees’s report with out touch upon what’s lacking from the evaluation and what stays to be investigated. They, and Yevgeny Krutikov’s Mudraya Ptitsa, have all ignored Esmaeili’s tv testimony. This lack of curiosity within the forensics of a high-profile incident in an allied nation implies there’s strain from the Kremlin, Protection Ministry and GRU to not probe and to not speculate.
The Common Employees report seems to sign that the Iranian Military won’t be investigating foul play.
“Presidential Helicopter Accident Reported: No Bullet Wounds or Related Stories
The primary report of the Common Employees of the Armed Forces was printed on the President’s helicopter accident.
The assertion of the Armed Forces Headquarters is as follows: Inform the expensive and noble individuals of Islamic Iran that the Excessive Council of the Armed Forces to research the scale and causes of the helicopter crash carrying the President, the martyr of Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi and his companions martyred the Martyr of the Highness by organizing specialised and technical professional teams on Monday morning of 1403.2.31 5: 30 a.m. from Tehran and at 9 a.m. that very same day they confirmed up on the website of the helicopter crash.
A major quantity of data has been collected in varied specialised, technical and public areas that would have been concerned within the accident.
Some actions for definitive remark require extra time to be thought-about and a few may be acknowledged with certainty that they’re being addressed:
- The helicopter has already continued on the anticipated path and has not departed from the designated flight path.
- A few minute and a half earlier than the helicopter crash, the pilot of the crashed helicopter communicated with two different helicopters of the flight group.
- Gunshot wounds or comparable ones haven’t been seen within the remaining elements of the helicopter.
- The helicopter crashed after hitting the peak, hearth.
- Because of the complexity of the realm, fogging and low temperatures, the search is performed at evening and continues all through the evening, and on Monday morning (5 am) with the assistance of unmanned birds (Iranian) precise level of the crash website and floor forces can be current at that time.
- Within the conversations of the management tower with the flight crew, no suspicious circumstances have been noticed.
On the finish of the day, a major a part of the paperwork associated to the helicopter crash have been collected and for some elements and paperwork, extra time is required, which after the analysis and professional work and extra detailed experience can be heard within the subsequent bulletins and heard by the noble and revolutionary nation of Iran; subsequently, [the Army] calls for that inexpert feedback primarily based on hypothesis with none correct data of the truth of the scene or typically beneath course of international media in our on-line world shouldn’t be printed.”
The warning on the finish of the Common Employees report has been ignored by the oppositionist Iranian media group, Iran Worldwide TV, which is hinting that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) plotted to kill the president. Iran Worldwide is an anti-clerical, anti-regime publication primarily based in London and Washington, and reportedly financed by Saudi Arabia.
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In its report, Iran Worldwide claims “that the President’s bodyguard was notably absent from the ill-fated helicopter…The newest pictures of Ebrahim Raisi present his bodyguard was virtually all the time at his aspect. Nonetheless, the launched listing of casualties revealed that he was not onboard. On condition that the Bell 212 helicopter can accommodate 15 passengers however solely had 8 on board, the query arises: why did Ebrahim Raisi’s private bodyguard proceed the journey in a distinct helicopter? Javad Mehrabi, the bodyguard of Iran’s President, continued the journey in one of many different two helicopters accompanying the president.”
