{"id":12649,"date":"2024-05-21T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2024-05-21T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:01:22","slug":"iranian-president-raisi-s-memorial-muted-amid-public-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=12649","title":{"rendered":"Iranian President Raisi, \u2019s memorial muted amid public discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iranian-president-raisi-s-memorial-muted-amid-public-discontent.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Thousands of\u00a0Iranians turned out to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi in the city of Tabriz on Tuesday, after he\u00a0was killed in a helicopter crash\u00a0near the Azerbaijan border at the weekend along with his foreign minister and seven others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-2078724582\">\n<div id=\"cypru-340574751\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-2483734410790-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>State TV broadcast live images of mourners, many of them dressed in black, beating their chests while a truck covered in white flowers carrying the caskets wrapped in the national flag was driven slowly through the crowd.<br \/>\n\u201cEveryone has come to bid farewell to the martyred president and his companions regardless of their faction, ethnicity or language,\u201d said Tabriz lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian.<br \/>\nHowever, although state TV said a large crowd appeared in Tabriz, some insiders see a stark contrast in public grief compared with past commemorations for the deaths of other senior figures in the Islamic Republic\u2019s 45-year history.<br \/>\nWhile\u00a0Iran\u00a0proclaimed five days of mourning for Raisi, there was little of the\u00a0emotional rhetoric\u00a0that accompanied the death of Qasem Soleimani, a senior commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards killed by a U.S. missile in 2020 in Iraq, whose funeral drew huge crowds of mourners, weeping with sorrow and rage.<br \/>\nRaisi\u2019s body was flown from Tabriz, the closest major city to the remote crash site, to Tehran airport before heading to the holy Shi\u2019ite Muslim city of Qom. From there, it will return to the capital to lie at Tehran\u2019s Grand Mosalla Mosque before being transferred to his hometown of Mashahd, in eastern\u00a0Iran, for burial on Thursday.<br \/>\nMourners carried posters bearing images of Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Friday prayer leader of Tabriz city and other officials who were also killed in the crash.<br \/>\n<strong>DEEPENING CRISIS<\/strong><br \/>\nThe death of the president came at a time of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large over issues from tightening social and political controls to economic hardship.<br \/>\nTo restore damaged legitimacy following a historic low turnout of around 41% in March\u2019s parliamentary election,\u00a0Iran\u2018s rulers must stir up public enthusiasm to secure high participation in the early presidential election that will be held on June 28.<br \/>\nBut\u00a0Iranians still have painful memories of the handling of nationwide unrest sparked by the\u00a0death in custody of a young\u00a0Iranian-Kurdish woman in 2022, which was quelled by a violent state crackdown involving mass detentions and even executions.<br \/>\nWidespread public anger at worsening living standards and pervasive graft may also keep many\u00a0Iranians at home.<br \/>\nSome analysts say that millions have lost hope that\u00a0Iran\u2018s ruling clerics can resolve an economic crisis fomented by a combination of U.S. sanctions, mismanagement and corruption.<br \/>\nRaisi\u00a0enacted\u00a0the hardline policies of his mentor, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, aimed at entrenching clerical power, cracking down on opponents, and adopting a tough line on foreign policy issues such as the nuclear talks with Washington to revive\u00a0Iran\u2018s 2015 nuclear pact.<br \/>\nAny candidate entering the race must first be vetted by the Guardian Council, a hardline watchdog that has often disqualified even prominent conservative and moderate officials, meaning the broad direction of policy is unlikely to change.<br \/>\nWhile widely seen as a leading candidate to take over from the 85-year-old supreme leader when he dies, two sources said Raisi\u2019s name had been\u00a0taken off\u00a0a list of potential successors some six months ago because of his sagging popularity.<br \/>\nRaisi\u2019s death has introduced \u201cgreat uncertainty\u201d in the succession, analysts said, stirring rivalries in the hardliners\u2019 camp over who will succeed Khamenei as the country\u2019s ultimate authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border along with his foreign minister and seven 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