Israeli officials said the deaths of two Iranian two political leaders won't have much effect on Israel and Iran's relations. Saysayatollah has real power.
most prominent political leaders who died in a helicopter crash over the weekend — but added they wouldn’t “shed a tear” for the losses.Member of the Israeli Knesset Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the opposition Yisrael Beiteinu party. “It won’t affect Israel’s attitude . Iran’s policies are set by the supreme leader .”
The men were traveling from Iran’s border with Azerbaijan when their helicopter went down in rugged terrain near the city of Jolfa. Search-and-rescue teams spent five hours cutting through dense forest, rain, and fog before finding the crash site. Middle East experts and analysts said despite Israel and Iran long-held views toward one another, there wasn’t much strategic benefit from Raisi’s death. In Israel, Raisi was largely perceived to be a figurehead who lacked any real power or say on Iran’s foreign policy. The real power in Iran rests with Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.“There was no doubt that the president was a brutal man,” Lieberman said. “We won’t shed a tear.
Sima Shine, a former senior official in the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, who is an analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv,“The president is not the most important person in Iran,” Shine said.
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