Down the Rabbit Hole We Go: Iran

First, let me tell you, it was one long day. Losing VIPs never makes it a short day. Especially when they are involved in the search for the VIP in extremely rugged terrain. However, about three hours into the incident, the question arose: how many helicopters in the Ebrahim Raisi entourage went down?

This was a group of three helicopters. One was transporting the president, the foreign minister, and the local governor. That was the red flag. Governments, for reasons (assassination), don’t tend to put all their eggs in one basket. In this case, they did.

Then, the other red flag emerged. And yes, the weather was horrible. The two decoy/ escorts made it home to their base. You have seen this in movies: the president’s plane, a chopper, goes down, and immediate rescue is done. This is based on authentic VIP protection protocols. But there was none of that. And the ground search made some sense under the conditions.

Then the photos emerged, and I felt utterly stupid for swallowing them. This is the crash site early in the process. But here we are. Incidentally, the photos are not even a search plane that would have made all the sense in the world. It was from a crash in…