Hearing of Raisi’s death, my thoughts ran back to Moms Mabley’s joke about her late husband: “I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good!” It is to be hoped that Raisi’s hard landing is a leading indicator of the fate of the Iranian regime.
That isn’t quite how the Biden administration sees it. They want to make nice with the ayatollahs. Yesterday the State Department issued this statement: “The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.” ...
They should have looked to the first President Bush on the death of Khomeni[.]
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