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How does this affect Iran's position against the Empire? I admittedly know little of it's internal politics and I assume Raeisi isn't the strongman glue keeping the anti imperial alignment in working order like Putin, and Iran will still be able to overcome this with comparatively little internal strife to other anti imperialist nations. Such a dumb fucking way to go in a critical time, rest in peace.
I doubt it will, beyond sparking anger depending on the results of the investigation; AFAICT most people in Iran are anti-imperialist, and Khomeini is still there (although I'm not well informed on the extent of his political power)
I'm not well informed either, but every Western media outlet has suddenly decided to condemn Raeisi as "the executioner of the regime", "the butcher of Tehran" etc. Meanwhile, they've started pushing the narrative that in the upcoming elections to replace him, the current regime will collapse and "democratic forces" will prevail, because of the protests that were going on a while ago.
This tells me three things:
a) Raeisi might or might not have been a decent guy, but he was most likely quite popular.
b) The current Iranian government will come out of this crisis just fine.
c) The West will be trying to incite another color revolution in Iran in the coming weeks/months.
Raisi was one of the people who executed leftists en masse during the leftist crackdown fiasco. Hardly anyone you should give a fuck about
In case you are interested, Ben Norton has a good video on Raeisi's anti imperialists and anti colonialists policies. I added the video here https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/4300675
I will look at it. Thank you comrade!
Do you mean Khamenei? Khomeini is long dead.
whoops, thanks 😬