A member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament, Ahmad Bakhshish Ardestani, has claimed that it is possible that Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May this year, was killed by a pager explosion.
In an interview with the Iranian news website Dedaban Iran, he said, “We received reports from some intelligence and military forces that Shaheed Raisi was also killed by a pager, which he was using.”
“The type of pager may be different from the pager in Hezbollah’s hands, but one of the possible scenarios for what happened to our late president is that his pager went off,” he added. .’
The former president of Iran died on May 19, 2024 after a helicopter crashed on the Iranian border near Azerbaijan.
A helicopter belonging to the late Iranian president’s convoy met with an ‘accident’ when, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA, he was returning after attending the inauguration ceremony of a dam on Iran’s border with Azerbaijan.
Later, the final investigative report by the Iranian Armed Forces into the crash of the helicopter of 63-year-old former president Ibrahim Raisi ruled out the possibility of sabotage or tampering with the aircraft, citing bad weather conditions as the cause of the fatal crash. was done
Apart from Ibrahim Raisi, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and six other people also lost their lives in this accident.
Ahmed Bakshish Ardestani said that ‘We are sure that Ibrahim Raisi was using a pager and the explosion of the same pager caused this accident.
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“It is possible that when Abraham Raisi went to the border of Azerbaijan, the Israelis got his pager information.”
Ahmad Bakhshish Ardestani said that Tehran must have been involved in the purchase of pagers for the pro-Iranian Hezbollah because one of these pagers was also in the hands of the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon.
Last week, pagers used by ordinary people in different cities of Lebanon began to explode spontaneously, which has killed about three dozen people, while 450 have been injured.
Later, it was learned that batteries of pagers and walkie-talkies of some commanders and fighters of Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian militant group active in Lebanon, also exploded.
Rescue teams find the wreckage of former Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi’s helicopter in Warzaghan, northwestern Iran, on May 20, 2024 (AFP)
Hezbollah blamed Israel for the blasts, although there was no response from Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah launched several drone and rocket attacks on Israel in order to avenge the deaths in the explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies.
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2024-09-23 21:56:11
