ALBAWABA - About four months after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash, a new theory about the accident has emerged coinciding with the explosion of pager devices in Lebanon.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died after the plane carrying him crashed on May 19 in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan, Tabriz City after an official trip to Azerbaijan.
The plane crash killed all the people in the helicopter including Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's East Azerbaijan Province Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution to East Azerbaijan Province.
Pager device explosion caused Iranian president’s plane crash, new theory emerges
A new theory emerged on social media claiming that a pager device blast could be the real reason behind the helicopter crash. This allegation came following a series of explosions of pager devices, commonly used by Hezbollah, in Lebanon.
At least 20 people in Lebanon were killed and over 3,250 others were injured with hundreds in critical condition, the Lebanese Ministry of Health revealed on Wednesday.
An old picture of the ex-Iranian President circulated online. In it, Ebrahim Raisi was spotted sitting in Tehran with a pager device placed on the table near him. The photo triggered and helped spread the new theory claiming that the Iranian helicopter crash was due to a pager explosion.
Despite the allegations being spread online, the helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others in May was caused by bad climatic and atmospheric conditions, Iran's state TV revealed on Sept. 1.
According to the final investigation report, "The main reason for the helicopter crash was complicated weather conditions in the region," it added.
