(15 May 2025)
IRAN RAISI DEATH ANNIVERSARY
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Tehran - 15 May 2025
1. Wide of ceremony to commemorate late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last year
2. Zoom-out of sign with Raisi's picture
3. Iran's Quds Force commander Gen. Esmail Ghaani
4. Wide of Gen. Hossein Salami, Iran's revolutionary guard corps commander-in-chief, addressing crowd
5. Audience chanting UPSOUND: "Death to Israel"
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Gen. Hossein Salami, Iran's revolutionary guard corps commander-in-chief:
"Mr. President (Donald Trump)! If you had the opportunity to visit Iran and see it in person, you would see the glory, greatness, culture, art and progress for yourself. That would surprise you in a manner that you'd forget whatever you said in Saudi Arabia."
7. Audience chanting UPSOUND: "Death to America"
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Gen. Hossein Salami, Iran's revolutionary guard corps commander-in-chief:
"Iran will never submit to your political will. Even the fact that Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon is because of the political will of the Iranian nation and its great leader. You are not in a position to make us do anything you wish. You need to know this."
9. Wide of audience
10. Various of ceremony, people waving flags
STORYLINE:
Iran held a ceremony on Thursday to commemorate late president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash last year.
Raisi and the country’s foreign minister were found dead hours after their helicopter crashed in fog in northwestern Iran.
The crash killed all eight people aboard a Bell 212 helicopter.
Raisi won Iran’s 2021 presidential election in a vote that saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. He was sanctioned by the U.S. in part over his involvement in the execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
During the ceremony, hardline supporters of the government chanted death to America and death to Israel.
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps addressed the crowd, using the opportunity to react to recent comments by U.S president Donald Trump during his regional tour. "Mr. President (Donald Trump)! If you had the opportunity to visit Iran and see it in person, you would see the glory, greatness, culture, art and progress for yourself," Hossein Salami said.
Salami also insisted Iran was not seeking a nuclear weapon because of its own political will, not due to political pressure by the U.S.
"Iran will never submit to your political will. Even the fact that Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon is because of the political will of the Iranian nation and its great leader. You are not in a position to make us do anything you wish. You need to know this."
Trump on Wednesday said he wants “to make a deal,” but Tehran must end its support of proxy groups throughout the Middle East as part of any potential agreement.
Today, Iran enriches up to 60%, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels, and has enough stockpiled for multiple nuclear bombs should it choose to build them.
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