The left is currently in a bit of an identity crisis following the not-so-tragic death of Iran’s president. Ebrahim Raisi perished along with several others, including the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister, in a helicopter crash on Sunday. As anyone with a passing knowledge of aviation knows, low-altitude flying, low visibility, and mountains don’t mix.
The question for the mainstream press and their Democrat friends was how to respond. Iran had become a quasi-ally of the far left over the last decade and a half, leaving journalists and politicians to decide whether to offer condolences or to speak clearly about who Raisi was. Expectedly, they went with the first option.
As RedState reported, the Biden administration released a letter of “official condolences,” a move that left many in disbelief. Raisi was a genocidal butcher (the “butcher of Tehran” was his nickname) who…
