By Ian DeMartino

On Monday, Iranian officials confirmed that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and every other passenger was killed when the helicopter they were traveling in crashed in the mountainous northwestern region of Iran.

One of the most important pipelines in Europe in one of the most surveilled areas of the Baltic Sea was destroyed in an act of sabotage and investigations by the Swedes and Denmark end without a culprit named.

The Prime Minister of Slovakia was shot five times  after he halted his country’s aid to Ukraine, by a senior citizen acting alone and who was a vehement supporter of Ukraine.

The Iranian president and foreign minister are both killed in a freak helicopter accident, during which the other two escort helicopters managed to return safely.

“You had three helicopters flying in a row, one all of a sudden drops out. No mayday. No nothing. And if it was due to foggy conditions, how did the other two get through okay? But not the president’s?” Michael Maloof, a retired senior security policy analyst asked the hosts of Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Monday.

Once again: no “accident”.

A MAJOR strategic mistake of cramming the top government circle on the SAME copter for a visit to a very dodgy border and when the whole of West Asia is a giant volcano.

— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) May 19, 2024

The Iranian delegation was flying in the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan, which borders the country of Azerbaijan, a close ally of Israel.

On Monday, an Israeli official reportedly told US media that it was not involved in the Iranian President’s death.

But, as Maloof notes, Israel has a history of alleged clandestine operations inside of Iran, including the bombing of pipelines, the murder of nuclear scientists and the recent response from Israel to an Iranian attack which Iran says was carried out from within its territory.

“[The attack by Israel on Iran] was also a very meager response, but I think that this was all planned for something much larger, something like this,” Maloof speculated.

“You have other episodes occurring throughout the West, including the attempted assassination of the prime minister of [Slovakia]… So these are not happening in isolation. Something bigger is going on out there. I think people are trying to put their finger on it,” he added.

The same day as the Iranian president’s helicopter crashed, officials for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) army said they thwarted a coup attempt and arrested 50 people, including three Americans. The coup’s alleged leader, Christian Malanga, was killed in the attempt. Malanga lived in the US for most of his life and according to videos posted online, visited the Israeli military in 2015.

The late failed coup leader Christian Malanga during an apparent 2015 visit to an Israeli military base pic.twitter.com/keFyp8nqz8 https://t.co/74MLsoLPUI

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 20, 2024

Maloof concluded that if it is revealed that Israel was involved in Raisi’s death, the response will be significant. “You saw what the reaction was when the Israelis hit the Iranian consulate in Syria… for the first time, Iran displayed that it could strike Israel directly. If this helicopter crash indeed was purposeful and it could link back to Israel, I rethink you’re going to see a very major response.”

 IRAN: WHAT REALLY MATTERS

Amidst all the sadness and grief, let’s cut to the chase.

Eurasia integration and the drive towards multipolarity is being fundamentally conducted by three major actors:

Russia, China – and Iran.

Which happen to be the three top “existential threats” to Exceptionalistan.

The heart of the matter: Putin essentially invited Iranian ambassador to Russia, Jalali, to be on the table at an impromptu Sunday, 10 pm meeting of the cream of the crop of Russia’s Defense Team.

That reaches way beyond the realm of discussion between “accidental crash” or targeted downing of the Iranian presidential helicopter.

Everyone was there: Defence Minister Belousov; Secretary of the Security Council Shoigu; Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov; Emergencies Minister Kurenkov; Special Assistant to the President, Levitin.

The message: Russia’s got Iran’s back.

And Russia completely supports stability and continuity of government in Iran – which is anyway already fully guaranteed by Iran’s constitution.

We are deep into total Hybrid War mode, bordering on Hot, on most of the planet.

Three civilization-states shaping a new world cannot be more clear.

Interlinked as they are via bilateral strategic partnerships, plus membership of BRICS and SCO, and following up on Putin-Xi in Beijing last week, none of the three will allow the other partners to be destabilized by the usual suspects.

— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) May 20, 2024

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/05/21/iranian-presidents-death-latest-in-string-of-strange-coincidences/