Death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raïssi: the story behind the hashtag "HeliKotlet"
“Happy #HeliKotlet Day!“: in Iran, and more widely among the Iranian diaspora across the world, not everyone is visibly in mourning since the announcement of the death of Ebrahim Raïssi. The Iranian president and his Minister of Foreign Affairs have been killed in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran, Sunday May 19, 2024.
The death of the “butcher of Tehran” at age 63 opens a period of political uncertainty in Iran, at a time when the region is shaken by the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinian Hamas, an ally of the Islamic Republic. Elected in 2021, he was considered one of the favorites to succeed the Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, aged 85. And this is undoubtedly also why his disappearance is not greeted with sadness by certain opponents of the mullahs’ regime.
Indeed, quickly after the announcement of the helicopter accident on Sunday, a hashtag appeared on social networks: “#HeliKotlet”. Under the keyword, on slowed down to religious songs broadcast by state television.
Behind this hashtag, taken up massively by the Iranian diaspora hostile to the current power as well as by Israelis who rejoice at this disappearance, there is a story that is to say the least… astonishing.
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