Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
May 25 2024
The death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi could ignite a powder keg of boiling tensions in the Middle East, conflict analysts have warned. The West needs to dismantle Tehran’s ruthless regime before it harnesses full nuclear power and arms terror proxies like Hamas with formidable weapons, they say.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash alongside the foreign minister on May 19
Officials transport a body from the mountainous crash site
The Iranian regime put on a three-day funeral for Raisi in an attempt to show he was adored by the repressed people of Iran
Iranian people protesting on the streets in 2022 after the death of a woman killed by Tehran’s ruthless morality police
Alan Mendoza, director of think tank the Henry Jackson society, told The Sun that “we are sleepwalking into a nuclear armed Iran with no thoughts about the consequences”.
Tehran, he says, will continue to be “a spoiler in the region” alongside its network of bloodthirsty proxy groups – who it could arm with nuclear weapons.
Two Iranian-American analysts – who have seen for themselves the brutality of the regime – told The Sun this is the moment for the West to strike.
Dr Majid Sadeghpour and Dr Ramesh Sepehrrad, both at non profit Organisation of Iranian American Communities (OIAC), said the unrest sparked by Raisi’s death directly threatens the wider Middle East.
Dr Sadeghpour told The Sun that the Iranian regime is “extremely unstable and irreparably damaged” following the helicopter crash that also killed Iran’s foreign minister.
And Dr Sepehrrad, who thinks Tehran will soon see an uprising, said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s dictatorship, which has been met with increasing opposition for some time, is now “in chaos”.
1. CHAOS IN THE REGIME
President Raisi, dubbed the “Butcher of Tehran”, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranian people.
He died in a fiery helicopter crash along with seven others nearly a week ago.
