Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian official killed over the weekend in a helicopter crash, was not just the president of Iran.
He was the “Butcher of Tehran,” known for holding five-minute “trials” for thousands of his own people and then sending them immediately to the execution squads.
And for this killer, who terrorized his own people, who had attempted to assassinate American officials including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who, by many assessments was a mass murderer, Joe Biden sent “condolences.”
The statement actually was attributed to “spokesperson” Matthew Miller of the State Department under Biden, and said, “The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amri-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
The expression of sympathy immediately drew gasps of outrage.
The @statedept send its condolences on the death of Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi was overseeing the Ministry of Intelligence’s efforts to assassinate senior former U.S. diplomats, including Secretary Blinken’s predecessor, @mikepompeo, and my former boss Brian Hook. pic.twitter.com/O43cEOyVCs
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) May 20, 2024
U.S. News reported, “Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Raisi acted as an assiduous apparatchik of the Islamic Republic and a prominent protégé of Khamenei, who as supreme leader holds ultimate power in the Islamic Republic. Before becoming president in 2021, Raisi held various positions inside the judiciary under the purview of the supreme leader. As a prosecutor, and at the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, he sat on the committee that sentenced thousands of political prisoners to death. The executions earned him the nickname the ‘Butcher of Tehran’ and subsequently subjected him to sanctions by the United States and to condemnation by the United Nations and international human rights organizations.”
Twitchy’s commentary on Biden’s action wasn’t complimentary of Raisi, or Biden.
“Holy cr*p. They did it! Biden’s State Dept’s reaction to ‘Butcher of Tehran’ death is something else.”
One observer classified Biden among the “clueless.”
For all clueless Westerners sending condolences in connection with y-day’s death of Islamic regime President Ebrahim Raisi
He conducted thousands of “5 minute trials” in the 1980s & sentenced 5000 innocent Iranians to death
He’s known as “The Butcher of Tehran”
Via @NiohBerg pic.twitter.com/nxJqugbX07
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 20, 2024
This statement from the State Department makes absolutely no sense.
Expressing condolences for the man (known as the Butcher of Tehran) who murdered and violently harassed the Iranian people, that State claims they support. What? pic.twitter.com/7XUMQVcC3d
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 20, 2024
What is wrong with this picture – everything. #Raisi is a TERRORIST psychopath sadist murderer – there is no good reason the USA should acknowledge his death other than to applaud it in remembrance of those he has murdered and the lives saved by his demise
Iranians are cheering https://t.co/707ckmGjtZ— Dea Riley (@DeaRileyKY) May 20, 2024
One online report stunningly described Raisi as “a consummate loyalist whose passing will be a severe blow to the country’s conservative leadership.”
Iran president, the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’ confirmed dead after chopper crash
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