#Mohammad Mokhber

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Sam Jones at The Guardian:

The hardline Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, has died in a helicopter crash in foggy weather in the mountains near the border with Azerbaijan.

The charred wreckage of the aircraft, which crashed on Sunday carrying Raisi, as well as the foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six other passengers and crew, was found early on Monday after an overnight search in blizzard conditions. Fears had been growing for Raisi, a 63-year-old ultraconservative, after contact was lost with the helicopter on Sunday as it navigated fog-covered mountains in north-west Iran. The country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – who holds ultimate power with a final say on foreign policy and Iran’s nuclear programme – said the country’s first vice-president, Mohammad Mokhber, would take over as interim president. The deputy foreign minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, was appointed as acting foreign minister. “I announce five days of public mourning and offer my condolences to the dear people of Iran,” Khamenei said. Mokhber, like Raisi, is seen as close to Khamenei. Under Iran’s constitution, a new presidential election must be held within 50 days.

[...] Raisi had been in Azerbaijan early on Sunday to inaugurate a dam with the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev. The dam is the third that the two nations have built on the Aras River. The visit came despite chilly relations between the two nations, including over a gun attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran in 2023, and Azerbaijan’s diplomatic relations with Israel, which Iran’s Shia theocracy views as its main enemy in the region.

Iranian hardliner President Ebrahim Raisi, along with foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six other passengers and crew, died in a helicopter crash near Varzaquan.

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Controversial opinion. Feel free to yell at me, I don’t care.

Most people’s deaths should be respected. The loss of human life is sad. At the very least, that’s a viewpoint I hold.

But some people have caused so much suffering that I cannot respect them even in death and I don’t believe they deserve to be respected. Nobody should suddenly be pardoned of their crimes (literal or metaphorical) just because they have passed away.

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Mokhber, 68, has largely been in the shadows compared to other politicians in Iran's Shiite theocracy. Raisi's death Sunday thrust Mokhber into public view. He is expected to serve as caretaker president for some 50 days before mandatory presidential elections in Iran.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the announcement of Mokhber’s appointment in a condolence message after the crash. The helicopter was found Monday in northwestern Iran.

Despite his low-key public profile, Mokhber has held prominent positions within the country's power structure, particularly in its bonyads, or charitable foundations. Those groups were fueled by donations or assets seized after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, particularly those previously associated with Iran's shah or those in his government.

Mokhber oversaw a bonyad known in English as the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order, or EIKO, referring to the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The U.S. Treasury said the organization oversaw billions of dollars in assets as “a business juggernaut under the direct supervision of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that has a stake in nearly every sector of the Iranian economy, including energy, telecommunications, and financial services.”

“EIKO has systematically violated the rights of dissidents by confiscating land and property from opponents of the regime, including political opponents, religious minorities, and exiled Iranians,” Treasury said in 2021 in sanctioning Mokhber. The European Union also sanctioned Mokhber for a time with others over concerns then about Iran's nuclear program.

As the head of EIKO, Mokhber oversaw an effort to make a COVID-19 vaccine during the height of the pandemic, pledging to make tens of millions of doses. Only a fraction of that ever made it to the public, without explanation.

Mokhber previously worked in banking and telecommunications. He also worked at the Mostazafan Foundation, another bonyad that manages the country’s mega-projects and businesses. While there, he found himself entangled in a bitter legal dispute between mobile phone service providers Turkcell and South Africa's MTN over potentially entering the Iranian market. MTN ended up entering Iran.

Iranian media reports suggest Mokhber, who holds a doctorate in international law, was crucial in Iranian efforts to bypass Western sanctions on its oil industry.

Mokhber has been a member of Iran’s Expediency Council since 2022, which advises the supreme leader and settles disputes between parliament and the Guardian Council, Iran’s constitutional watchdog that also oversees the country’s elections.

Mokhber was born Sept. 1, 1955, in Dezful in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province to a clerical family. He served as an officer in the Revolutionary Guard's medical corps during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, according to the pressure group United Against Nuclear Iran.

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Quién es Mohammad Mokhber, el nuevo presidente interino de Irán tras la muerte de Raisi en un accidente de helicóptero

El vicepresidente asume la presidencia del país de forma interina tras la muerte del presidente Raisi en un accidente de helicóptero. Mohammad MokhberMehr News Agency – Wikimedia Commons La muerte de Ebrahim Raisi, el presidente de Irán, en un accidente de helicóptero convierte a Mohammad Mokhber en el nuevo presidente iraní, según lo contemplado en la Constitución del país persa. Mokhber, de…

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died on Sunday when a helicopter carrying him and a delegation of other Iranian officials crash-landed in the mountains of northern Iran, throwing the future of the country and the region into further doubt.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other top officials were also killed in the crash as the group was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, the Iranian state-run Islamic Republic News Agency confirmed. Dense fog impeded search and rescue operations for hours before the crash site was found. The fog was so thick that it forced the Iranians to call on the support of European Union satellites to help locate the helicopter. 

Raisi’s death puts a coda on a short but transformative era in Iranian politics that saw the country lurch in a hard-line direction and threatened to bring the Middle East to the brink of regional war. In nearly three years in power, Raisi moved Iran’s domestic politics and social policy in a more conservative direction and pushed the country further into the role of clear U.S. antagonist in the region after his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani—who defeated him in the 2017 presidential election—first sought a detente with the West over Iran’s nuclear program before stepping up proxy attacks.

An Islamic jurist noted for his close relationship with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and considered by many officials and experts as a likely candidate to succeed the aging supreme leader, Raisi’s tenure saw Iran speed up uranium enrichment and slow down negotiations on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action after the United States exited the deal in 2018, three years before he came into office.

Iran under Raisi also supported Russia in its war against Ukraine with extensive exports of Shahed suicide drones and artillery; increased attacks by regional proxy militias against the United States and Israel after Hamas’s October 2023 cross-border attack on Israel; and just a month before his death launched a massive drone and missile attack against Israel. 

Experts say that regardless of who replaces Raisi, the strategy he pursued is unlikely to change, having been solidified among the higher echelons of Iran’s political and clerical leadership. 

“With Raisi, without Raisi, the regime is quite content with the way the post-Oct. 7 Middle East has been shaking out,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow focused on Iran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). “It’s been able to continue its death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy, firing directly against the U.S. and Israel via proxy and then even directly a few times itself with the tit-for-tat you saw in April, and still look like it won the round.”

Under the Iranian Constitution, First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber is likely to fill in as head of the cabinet for the next 50 days until elections can be called. Recent parliamentary elections drew record-low turnouts, analysts said. What’s more, significant effort was expended by Khamenei and his allies to ensure Raisi’s win during the last presidential election in 2021, disqualifying potential rivals. 

Before becoming president, Raisi served on Iran’s prosecution committee that was responsible for executing an estimated 5,000 dissidents in 1988. He had been accused of crimes against humanity by the United Nations and was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. And that heavy-handed approach continued with the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police in September 2022 after allegedly not wearing a hijab properly in public, which sparked nationwide protests. 

Beyond the horizon of snap elections and the presidential election set for next year, there is potential for upheaval at the top of Iran’s ruling class. With a short line of possible successors to the 85-year-old Khamenei, other than the head of state’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, Raisi’s death could throw the country’s political future into further turmoil. 

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the largest branch of the Iranian armed forces that controls major swaths of the country’s economy, could also use the upheaval to strengthen its hand.

“There is no heir apparent if he’s gone,” said David Des Roches, a professor at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and retired U.S. Army colonel. “What’s really interesting is to see if the IRGC will basically complete a slow-motion coup.”

As rescue workers searched for Raisi’s downed helicopter, state media asked the Iranian people to pray for him. Instead, in the wake of reports of the crash, some Iranians appeared to light celebratory fireworks, cheering the demise of the hard-line leader.

“Today’s crash & likely death of president Raisi and his [foreign minister] will shake up Iranian politics,” Afshon Ostovar, an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and a longtime Iran expert, wrote in a post on X before the president’s death had been confirmed. “Regardless of the cause, perceptions of foul play will be rife within the regime. Ambitious elements may press for advantage, compelling reactions from other parts of the regime. Buckle up.” 

While experts said it was unlikely that a liberalizing figure would emerge in either snap elections or Iran’s 2025 presidential election, Raisi’s death could leave a small opening for resurgent protest movements that have persisted under the surface. 

“These movements are not dead,” said Ben Taleblu, the FDD expert. “They operate on the low level, on the periphery—usually strikes, labor unions, that kind of thing. It could lead to a nationwide trigger, and it could be a nothing burger. But the story of the Iranian protest movement is always a matter of when and not if.”

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IRANIAN PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN MINISTER KILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH, AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI DECLARES FIVE DAYS OF MOURNING

In a message issued by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian leader declared five days of mourning following a freak helicopter crash on Sunday, May 19th, that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, leader of Friday prayers in Tabriz, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e-Hashem, and the Governor of East Azerbaijan, Malek Rahmati, along with members of the President's security team and his crew.

The wreckage of the President's helicopter was found by rescue crews in the early hours of Monday morning following an exhaustive search in extremely foggy weather.

President Raisi's convoy included three helicopters, with two of them carrying a number of ministers and officials that managed to land safely in the fog.

“In this bitter tragedy, the Iranian nation lost a warm-hearted, humble and valued servant,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in his statement, adding that President Raisi was a hard worker who never stopped working round-the-clock for the Iranian people despite facing intense push-back from "ill-wishers".

Khamenei further offered his condolences to the Iranian nation and approved Vice-President Mohammed Mokhber to take over the position of interim President and to work with members of the Iranian Parliament to prepare for new elections for President in the next 50 days.

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian leaders vowed revenge on Thursday for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people at a ceremony to commemorate top Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani on the anniversary of his death in a U.S. drone attack.

"A very strong retaliation will be handed to them on the hands of the soldiers of Soleimani," First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber told reporters at a hospital were some of the wounded from Wednesday's blasts were receiving treatment.

Tehran has blamed the explosions on unspecified "terrorists", but no one has yet claimed responsibility for the bloodiest such attacks since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

An unnamed source told the state news agency IRNA that the first explosion at the cemetery in the southeastern city of Kerman "was the result of a suicide bomber's action".

"The cause of the second blast was most likely the same," the source told IRNA.

State TV showed crowds gathered at dozen cities across Iran, including Soleimani's home town Kerman, chanting: "Death to Israel" and "Death to America".

Iranian authorities have called for mass protests on Friday, when the funerals of the victims' of twin blasts will be held, state media reported.

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps described the attacks as a cowardly act "aimed at creating insecurity and seeking revenge against the nation's deep love and devotion to the Islamic Republic".

The Guards commander in Kerman denied state media reports of a shooting in Kerman on Thursday.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has condemned the "heinous and inhumane crime", and Iran's top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, vowed revenge for the twin bombings, that also wounded 284 people, including women and children.

EARLIER ATTACKS

The United States on Wednesday said it was not involved in any way in the explosions and had no reason to believe Israel was.

Washington said the blasts appeared to represent "a terrorist attack" of the type carried out in the past by Islamic State militants.

Tehran often accuses its arch enemies, Israel and the United States, of backing anti-Iran militant groups that have carried out attacks against the Islamic Republic in the past. Baluchi militants and ethnic Arab separatists have also staged attacks in Iran.

In 2022, the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Iran which killed 15 people.

Earlier attacks claimed by Islamic State include twin bombings in 2017 which targeted Iran's parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The U.S. assassination of Soleimani in a Jan. 3, 2020, drone attack at Baghdad airport, and Tehran's retaliation - by attacking two Iraqi military bases that house U.S. troops - brought the United States and Iran close to full-blown conflict.

As chief commander of the elite Quds force, the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Soleimani ran clandestine operations abroad and was a key figure in Iran's longstanding campaign to drive U.S. forces from the Middle East.

Tensions between Iran and Israel, along with its ally the United States, have reached a new high over Israel's war on Iran-backed Hamas militants in Gaza in retaliation for their Oct. 7 rampage through southern Israel.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia have attacked ships they say have links to Israel in the entrance to the Red Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

U.S. forces have come under attack from Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria over Washington's backing of Israel and have carried out their own retaliatory air strikes.

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Officials from 68 countries attend Iranian president’s funeral

The funeral ceremony came hours after hundreds of thousands of people took part in a funeral procession in the Iranian capital for Raisi and others killed in Sunday’s crash, Iranian media reported.

Acting President Mohammad Mokhber, Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and other officials received the foreign guests.

Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov attended the funeral ceremony.

Tunisian President Kais Saied, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the parliament speakers of Lebanon, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Mali, Russia and Uzbekistan also attended the farewell ceremony and expressed their honour.

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, and Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan also attended the ceremony.

Foreign ministers of Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Venezuela and Jordan also came to the ceremony.

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“Raisi’s death in itself will not structurally change the leadership of the country which is ensured by the supreme leader Khamenei. On the other hand, we must now scrutinise the looming political battle and the internal balance of power within the regime, since the Iranian constitution provides that new elections must be organised within 50 days.” - Taghi Rahmani, the husband of the imprisoned Nobel prize winner Narges Mohammadi

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei is 85 years old and has been the supreme leader since 1989. Previously was president from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East.

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Iran: who holds power now the president is dead? | The Guardian

The question of who will succeed Khamenei, who has been treated for prostate cancer and has other health issues, has become more pressing in recent years as he had groomed and elevated key loyalists like Raisi, the president who died on Sunday.

Mohammad Mokhber, interim president

Aged 68, Mokhber, who was appointed acting president after Raisi’s death, served as first vice-president. Associated with the hard-line conservative centres of power in Iran, Mokhber is regarded as close to the office of the supreme leader and the IRGC, which represent the two key intersecting focuses of power in the Iranian system of governance.

Mojtaba Khameini, son of Ali Khamenei

Aged 54, the supreme leader’s second eldest son is sometimes mentioned as a potential successor to his father. An important figure in the Office of the Supreme Leader, he is seen as a power broker and gatekeeper for his father, with his influence dictated by his proximity to Khamenei.

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Ellen Ioanes at Vox:

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died Sunday in a helicopter crash, a shocking turn of events that immediately raised questions about the Islamic Republic’s future.  In the short term, Raisi’s passing is unlikely to alter the direction of Iran’s politics. But it does remove one possible successor to 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In the long term, Raisi’s unexpected death may prove more consequential. The question of Khamenei’s succession is increasingly urgent because of his advanced age. Though Iran’s president can be influential in setting policy, the Supreme Leader is the real seat of power, controlling the judiciary, foreign policy, and elections. Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian’s helicopter made a hard landing sometime on Sunday in Iran’s mountainous northwest, where weather conditions made travel difficult and dangerous. Iranian state media announced the deaths of the two politicians and six others onboard, including three crew members, on Monday after rescue teams finally reached the crash site. The deaths of both Raisi and Amirabdollahian come at a time of internal and external challenges for the Iranian regime. A harsh crackdown after the widespread protests of 2022 and significant economic problems domestically have eroded the regime’s credibility with the Iranian people. Internationally, Iran is embroiled in a bitter regional conflict with Israel as well as a protracted fight with the US over its nuclear program.

In the near term, the first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, will be the acting president as the country prepares to hold elections within the next 50 days as dictated by its constitution. (The Iranian government includes vice presidencies overseeing different government agencies, similar to US Cabinet-level secretaries; the first vice president is roughly equivalent to the US vice president.) Raisi was considered a potential successor to Khamenei, having already been vetted by the ruling clerics during his 2021 presidential run and having been committed to the regime’s conservative policies. With his death, amid one of the regime’s most challenging periods, Iran’s long-term future is a little less certain.

Within Iran, succession is the biggest question 

A hardline conservative cleric, Raisi always wore a black turban symbolizing his descent from the prophet Muhammad. His close relationship with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fueled speculation that he could succeed Khamenei. The paramilitary force exerts significant sway over internal politics and also wields influence throughout the broader region through aligned groups and proxy forces in Iraq and Syria, as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza.  Raisi was initially elected in 2021 with 62 percent of the vote, though turnout was only 49 percent — the lowest ever in the history of the Islamic Republic, evidence of the crisis of legitimacy in which the government increasingly finds itself. “People don’t want to legitimate the government by participating in what they consider either fraudulent or just non-representative political outcomes,” Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Walter H. Annenberg professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, told Vox. 

Throughout his judicial career, Raisi is alleged to be responsible for or implicated in some of the government’s most brutal repression and human rights abuses since the 1979 revolution, including serving on the so-called Death Committee, which was tasked with carrying out thousands of extrajudicial executions of political prisoners in the 1980s. During and after the Iran-Iraq war, there were a number of groups opposed to the regime, as well as supporters of the Iraqi position and even an attempt to attack Iran from Iraq. In order to preserve the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered a sweeping purge of the opposition; many of the dissidents who were arrested were chosen for execution arbitrarily.

Following the disputed 2009 election — which birthed the Green Movement, the most significant threat to the regime in decades — Raisi, then a high-level member of the judiciary, called for the punishment and even execution of people involved in the movement. And as president, he helped oversee the violent backlash to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement that erupted following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by the morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. Raisi’s unpopularity due to his repressive past and worsening living standards for ordinary Iranians had helped further erode the government’s legitimacy, which may affect the upcoming presidential contest.

With the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi via a plane crash, it could have long-term effects, as Ayatollah Ali Khameini could be nearing the doorstep of death and succession plans to succeed him have been thrown into chaos.

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Iran strategic role in the region is neded for the axis of resistance and to fight the Zionist monster

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🥰 真正的多边主义 | RAFFORZARE IL PARTENARIATO STRATEGICO TRA CINA E IRAN, PER PROMUOVERE UN MAGGIORE COORDINAMENTO NEGLI AFFARI REGIONALI ED INTERNAZIONALI 😘

☑️ A margine della 22ª Riunione del Consiglio dei Capi di Governo dei Paesi dell'Organizzazione per la Cooperazione di Shanghai, si è tenuto un Incontro tra il Compagno Li Qiang - Primo Ministro della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, e Mohammad Mokhber - Vice-Presidente della Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran 🇮🇷

🇨🇳 Negli ultimi cinquant'anni, ha dichiarato Li Qiang, i Rapporti tra Cina e Iran hanno resistito a tempeste e nubi, e si sono sviluppati con costanza 🌱

🇮🇷 A febbraio di quest'anno, Ebrahim Raisi - Presidente della Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran, si è recato a Pechino, e qui i due Capi di Stato hanno rafforzato le Relazioni Sino-Iraniane, rilasciando un'importante Dichiarazione Congiunta, trattata da Collettivo Shaoshan in cinque parti:

一 Questioni Politiche 🤝

二 Sicurezza, Difesa e Cooperazione Militare 🤝

三 Economia e Commercio 📊

四 Istruzione e Cultura 📚

五 Questioni Regionali e Internazionali 🌐

🇨🇳 La Cina, ha ricordato Li Qiang, continuerà - come in passato, a sostenere fermamente la Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran nella salvaguardia della propria Sovranità, Integrità Territoriale e Dignità Nazionale, e si opporrà risolutamente a qualsiasi forza esterna che tenterà di interferire negli Affari Interni dell'Iran 🤝

🐲 Cina e Iran sono nazioni antiche, la cui Amicizia è forgiata dall'Antica Via della Seta. Legandosi al Glorioso Passato dell'Antica Via della Seta, i due Paesi dovrebbero promuovere la costruzione della 一带一路 - Nuova Via della Seta, rafforzando la Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢) 🤝

🇨🇳 La Cina, inoltre, è disposta a rafforzare la Comunicazione e il Coordinamento con l'Iran nei meccanismi multilaterali, tra cui 上海合作组织 - l'Organizzazione per la Cooperazione di Shanghai, BRICS e Nazioni Unite, per promuovere la costruzione di un Vero Multilateralismo (真正的多边主义) e salvaguardare gli Interessi Comuni dei Paesi in Via di Sviluppo 🤝

🌳 獨木不成林單弦不成音 | Più alberi creano una foresta, Futuro Condiviso per i Paesi in Via di Sviluppo 🥰

💬 I due Paesi, ad esempio, sono in stretto coordinamento nell'ambito della Questione della Palestina, e - nonostante alcune differenze di visione che l'Iran ha rispetto a Cina e Russia, i tre Paesi continuano a rafforzare il Dialogo e a promuovere l'Istituzione di uno Stato di Palestina, che sia indipendente e sovrano 🇵🇸

🇮🇷 Il Vice-Presidente Mokhber ha dichiarato che la Cina è un partner strategico dell'Iran, e che l'Amicizia tra i due Paesi ha una storia lunga 💕

🤝 I due Paesi sono legati dall'Accordo di Cooperazione Strategica di 25 Anni, e il Vice-Presidente Iraniano ha affermato che vi sono numerose aree per la Cooperazione Sino-Iraniana 📊

📊 Attualmente, il Volume degli Scambi tra Cina e Iran ammonta a ~ 30 Miliardi USD all'anno, e i due Paesi continueranno a promuovere l'utilizzo delle proprie valute, evitando il dollaro, per facilitare le relazioni commerciali 🤝

🇮🇷 L'Iran è grato per l'aiuto che la Cina ha fornito alla Repubblica Islamica nell'ambito dello Sviluppo Economico e Sociale, desidera costruire la Nuova Via della Seta con la Cina, rafforzare la connettività e la Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio con la Cina e approfondire la collaborazione nei meccanismi multilaterali 🤝

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🥰 真正的多边主义 | STRENGTHEN THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CHINA AND IRAN, TO PROMOTE GREATER COORDINATION IN REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 😘

☑️ On the sidelines of the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a Meeting was held between Comrade Li Qiang - Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China, and Mohammad Mokhber - Vice-President of the Republic Islamic of Iran 🇮🇷

🇨🇳 Over the last fifty years, declared Li Qiang, relations between China and Iran have withstood storms and clouds, and have developed steadily 🌱

🇮🇷In February this year, Ebrahim Raisi - President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, went to Beijing, and here the two Heads of State strengthened Sino-Iranian Relations, releasing an important Joint Declaration, addressed by Five-part Shaoshan Collective:

一 Political Issues 🤝

二 Security, Defense and Military Cooperation 🤝

三 Economy and Commerce 📊

四 Education and Culture 📚

五 Regional and International Issues 🌐

🇨🇳 China, Li Qiang reminded will continue - as in the past, to firmly support the Islamic Republic of Iran in safeguarding its Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and National Dignity, and will resolutely oppose any external force that attempts to interfere in Internal Affairs of Iran 🤝

🐲 China and Iran are ancient nations, whose Friendship is forged by the Ancient Silk Road. By binding themselves to the Glorious Past of the Ancient Silk Road, the two countries should promote the construction of the 一带一路 - New Silk Road, strengthening Mutual Benefit Cooperation (合作共赢) 🤝

🇨🇳 China is also willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Iran in multilateral mechanisms, including 上海合作组织 - the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS and the United Nations, to promote the construction of a True Multilateralism (真正的多边主义) and safeguarding the common interests of developing countries 🤝

🌳 獨木不成林單弦不成音 | More trees create a forest, Shared Future for Developing Countries 🥰

💬 The two countries, for example, are in close coordination in the context of the Palestine issue, and - despite some differences in vision that Iran has compared to China and Russia, the three countries continue to strengthen the dialogue and promote Establishment of a State of Palestine, which is independent and sovereign 🇵🇸

🇮🇷Vice-President Mokhber declared that China is a strategic partner of Iran, and that the friendship between the two countries has a long history 💕

🤝 The two countries are linked by the 25-Year Strategic Cooperation Agreement, and the Iranian Vice-President said that there are numerous areas for Sino-Iranian Cooperation 📊

📊 Currently, the Trade Volume between China and Iran amounts to ~30 Billion USD per year, and the two countries will continue to promote the use of their own currencies, avoiding the dollar, to facilitate trade relations 🤝

🇮🇷 Iran is grateful for the help China has provided to the Islamic Republic in the field of Economic and Social Development, wishes to build the New Silk Road with China, strengthen connectivity and mutual benefit cooperation with China and deepen collaboration in multilateral mechanisms 🤝

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5 minute readOctober 18, 20229:41 AM EDTLast Updated 13 min ago

Exclusive: Iran agrees to ship missiles, more drones to Russia, defying the West

Summary

Iran to sell more drones, missiles to Russia

West heavily criticises Iran over drones

Tehran under pressure from mass protests

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface to surface missiles, in addition to more drones, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters, a move that is likely to infuriate the United States and other Western powers.

A deal was agreed on Oct. 6 when Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, two senior officials from Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow for talks with Russia about the delivery of the weapons.

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Iran begins registration for presidential candidates after Ebrahim Raisis demise

NEW DELHI: Iran initiated the official registration for presidential candidates on Thursday for a snap election next month, following the sudden demise of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.”Candidate registration for the 14th presidential elections began at 8am (0430 GMT)… at the interior ministry,” announced the official IRNA news agency.Presidential hopefuls have a five-day window to register, IRNA said.Originally scheduled for 2025, the elections were preponed due to Raisi’s unexpected passing on May 19.Raisi and seven individuals, including foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, were killed when their helicopter crashed on a misty mountainside in northern Iran.The Islamic republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appointed vice president Mohammad Mokhber, 68, as the caretaker president after the accident, as per the constitutional directive.State TV reported that “around 30 people” came forward to submit their candidacies on Thursday but indicated, “none of them met the basic conditions for qualification.”According to Iran’s electoral law, candidates must be aged between 40 and 75 and possess at least a master’s degree.Like previous election cycles, the main candidates from Iran’s key political factions are anticipated to submit their applications closer to the end of the registration period.The Guardian Council, a 12-member panel of jurists appointed or approved by the supreme leader, will announce the final list of candidates on June 11.During the 2021 presidential elections, this body disqualified several reformist and moderate candidates, leading to the election of the ultraconservative Raisi.That election witnessed a record low voter turnout, with only 48.8% participation. Source link via The Novum Times

[realnews20]

Teheran, 19 mag. (Adnkronos) - "Atterraggio difficile" in Iran per l'elicottero a bordo del quale si trovava il presidente Ebrahim Raisi. Secondo quanto riferito dalla tv di Stato, Raisi era in volo nella provincia iraniana dell'Azerbaigian orientale quando si è verificato l'incidente nei pressi di Jolfa, al confine con l'Azerbaigian, dove il presidente aveva inaugurato questa mattina una diga insieme al leader azero Ilham Aliyev. Le vite del presidente iraniano Ibrahim Raisi e del ministro degli Esteri Hossein Amirabdollahian "sono a rischio", ha detto una fonte iraniana alla Reuters, rilanciata dai principali media internazionali. Le informazioni che arrivano, ha spiegato, sono "molto preoccupanti". Con Raisi viaggiavano oltre al ministro degli Esteri, l'imam della moschea di Tabriz e altri alti funzionari del governo. L'elicottero faceva parte di un convoglio di tre elicotteri e gli altri due sono arrivati a destinazione. Il luogo dell'incidente è stato individuato, scrive l'agenzia di stampa Tasnim, si trova nei pressi del villaggio di Uzi, nella foresta di Arasbaran, nella provincia dell'est Azerbaigian. Quaranta team di risposta rapida sono impegnati nelle operazioni di ricerca e soccorso, ha reso noto il capo della Mezzaluna rossa iraniana, Hossein Kolivand, spiegando che le condizioni meteo sono proibitive, ma "stiamo facendo ogni sforzo per condurre le azioni necessarie". L'agenzia di stampa Mehr riferisce che si stanno utilizzando anche droni per localizzare il velivolo. L'agenzia Irna cita le testimonianze dei villaggi della zona che hanno detto che sono state sentite voci nell'area. "In condizioni meteo avverse e in una zona dell'incidente impervia, i soccorritori stanno ancora conducendo le operazioni di ricerca e soccorso", ha scritto su X il portavoce del governo iraniano, Ali Bahadori Jahromi, aggiungendo che "il vice presidente esecutivo Mohammad Mokhber e altri membri del governo sono partiti per Tabriz", riferendosi al capoluogo dell'Azerbaigian orientale dove si è verificato l'incidente. "Ora siamo nell'area e tutte le squadre di soccorso sono impegnate nella ricerca", ha detto il ministro della Sanità, Bahram Eynollahi, ribadendo che la ricerca dell'elicottero a bordo del quale viaggiava il presidente Raisi è difficile a causa della nebbia. "Abbiamo allestito tutte le strutture sanitarie, abbiamo dispiegato le unità mediche di emergenza, chirurgiche e le ambulanze", ha aggiunto. Dopo l'incidente il leader supremo iraniano, l'ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sta partecipando a un incontro d'emergenza con il Consiglio di sicurezza nazionale. L'agenzia di stampa Fars ha chiesto di "pregare" per Raisi. L'agenzia di stampa iraniana Mehr, riferisce la Tass, ha annullato le news secondo cui Raisi avrebbe ripreso il viaggio via terra. "Alcune delle persone a bordo dell'elicottero del presidente Raisi sono riuscite a mettersi in contatto con il quartier generale, alimentando le speranze che l'incidente possa essersi concluso senza vittime", ha riferito l'agenzia Tasnim su X, ripresa dalla Cnn, precisando che quindi le persone a bordo dell'elicottero hanno potuto lanciare un messaggio di emergenza. [ad_2] Source link

[mariacallous]

TEHRAN—Almost immediately after Iranian authorities announced that President Ebrahim Raisi had died on May 19, black mourning flags were raised across Tehran. Residents in the capital awoke the following day to giant banners on most street corners depicting the late leader with poems and flattering language about him.

Campaign posters are expected to follow soon: According to Iran’s constitution, a new president must be chosen within 50 days of a leader’s death. The vote to elect Raisi’s successor is scheduled for June 28. On Sunday, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi officially opened the presidential election season, ordering Iran’s provinces and cities to set up headquarters and committees to run elections within three days. Candidates can register between May 30 and June 3, the country’s Election Headquarters announced.

All candidates must be vetted by the Guardian Council, a 12-member clerical government body, before a two-week campaigning period starts on June 12. The new president will serve a full four-year term after his inauguration.

Saeed Jalili, a hard-liner and Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator, is considered one of the contenders for the presidency, as is the current acting president, Mohammad Mokhber, who is close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Former hard-liner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told supporters outside his Tehran home that he would consider running. Ali Larijani, the comparatively moderate former speaker of parliament, may also stand in the polls.

The May 19 helicopter crash that killed Raisi also claimed the lives of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six others and triggered five days of mourning—national holidays that culminated in the 63-year-old president’s burial last Thursday at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran’s holiest site. The funeral drew around 3 million people, according to the city’s mayor. Many traveled from afar by train after a television broadcast advertised free accommodation at hotels and guesthouses. Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who is based in Qatar, visited Tehran on Wednesday for one of Raisi’s funeral processions.

Thousands more gathered at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in Rey, a suburb of Tehran, to attend Amir-Abdollahian’s funeral. Chants of “death to Israel, death to America” echoed through the crowds at the shrine, where people waved Iranian, Palestinian, Hezbollah, and Hamas flags. Mourners squeezed tightly into the shrine’s courtyard where, teary-eyed and praying, they threw fresh flowers onto Amir-Abdollahian’s coffin as it arrived for its final rest.

“We’re bidding farewell,” 45-year-old Tahere Mehrabi said, her hands held up in prayer. “The nation is grieving, but we’re hoping for a bright future. That’s also why I’m heading to the polls,” she added.

Islamic scholar Hamid Rajeri, 45, confirmed his intention to vote but added with disgust that he had also seen a different side of Iran “while the whole country was grieving,” referring to social media posts celebrating Raisi’s death. “These martyrs were popular figures and our people are devastated. Those celebrating are hooligans,” he said.

Raisi’s death has exposed further fissures in Iranian society. While millions grieved, others used the unexpected national holiday for an impromptu vacation, traveling to northern Iran’s mountains. In Tehran, groups of students who lacked the funds for trips gathered in coffee shops and parks, playing card games and drinking hot black tea from thermoses.

“Why should we be sad? We know him as the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’” said an 18-year-old engineering student, her bright pink hair uncovered and her ears decked with piercings. She spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing identification by the government. In the 1980s, Raisi oversaw mass executions of political prisoners, she added.

Under his leadership in 2022, Iran cracked down hard on anti-government protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained by Iran’s morality police for wearing “improper” clothing and later died in the hospital. “We want justice and political change, but the system is not changing. It’s frustrating,” the student said, sitting on the grass with six of her classmates. When asked if she would vote next month, she shook her head. “Not me, not my friends.”

Raisi, known for his close alignment with the 85-year-old Khamenei, was widely regarded by experts as his potential successor. Raisi assumed office in 2021 after the Guardian Council disqualified several moderate and reformist opponents in that year’s presidential election, triggering record-low voter turnout of 48.8 percent. Experts say that the upcoming election is unlikely to bring significant changes to Iran’s ruling system. Just 41 percent of eligible voters participated in March’s parliamentary election.

“Back in 2021, the supreme leader wanted a true loyalist in power, a supporter of the deep state and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” said Hamidreza Azizi, an expert on Iranian foreign policy and visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. “Nothing substantial has changed on that front. The government is seeking a safe transition of supreme leaders, so it is unlikely that they will allow outsiders to come in and jeopardize this interest.” Given Khamenei’s age, many are speculating about his health and potential succession.

Azizi does not expect significant changes in voter turnout, either. “Even if moderate and reformist candidates are qualified in the upcoming elections—which isn’t guaranteed—I don’t think people will show up in big numbers,” he said. Dislike of the government is also widespread among Iranians, Azizi said. The urban middle class has expressed this sentiment on social media and via social disobedience, such as women’s refusal to wear the mandatory headscarf. Dissatisfaction has grown in smaller, lower-income towns, too, where residents have launched sporadic protests against the government over economic struggles.

“The reality is that all Iranians suffer from economic, social, and political restrictions, and there is no immediate solution in sight—especially as long as foreign sanctions and systemic corruption exist,” Azizi added.

However, some experts argue that the upcoming snap election presents an opportunity for change in Iran. “Last time, the Guardian Council disqualified several people, but it appears they will have a more inclusive approach this time, mostly due to the low voter turnout during the 2021 polls and the criticism the council faced,” explained Afifeh Abedi, a reformist parliamentary candidate for the Tehran constituency who ran in Iran’s legislative elections this spring.

With official campaigns set to start on June 12, Abedi hopes that a more inclusive approach to elections and candidate qualification will bring Iranians to the polls—especially in the capital, where voter participation has been lower than in other provinces.

As the mourning period and funerals concluded last Friday, Tehran returned to normalcy, save for the Raisi banners and black flags. Shops were open, and restaurants were packed. Over the weekend, students strolled down the city center’s Enghelab Street, rummaging through bookstores and ordering saffron ice cream floats with carrot juice. In the evenings, dozens of people gathered on a hilltop dubbed the “roof of Tehran” to watch the sun set over the city. Children flew kites, young couples sat listening to music, and families poured cups of tea.

“Between sanctions, politics, and the economy, life isn’t easy here,” a 20-year-old woman said as she sat with her friends after trekking up the hill, staring into the city lights. She, too, spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her safety. “Many young people want to leave, but after all, this is our country. This is our culture. It’s home—and regardless of the circumstances, leaving home is not easy.”

[andrewtheprophet]

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