The unexpected demise of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi, stoned to death with a mountain by the grace of a US-made helicopter, has opened up speculation as to the political changes that this act of divine justice might trigger in the murderous Islamic Republic and further afield.
High-level political deaths in office, natural or induced, always appear to hold up at least the possibility of radical re-setting of policy and therefore of the course of historyitself, even – particularly when they occur without any warning and they involve powerful figures sitting atop autocratic regimes.
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