President Raisi's crash 'caused by three factors', expert says as Iranians celebrate with fireworks

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Dr Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, explained to the Mirror how the crash could have happened. Dispelling conspiracy theories that are already swirling, he said: "If you look at all these things that came together yesterday - number one: was the weather, number two: terrible maintenance of very old kits with which they flew and number three: human error.

Addressing some theories that have emerged since, that maybe he was killed by an internal rival or Iran's long-term enemies US/ Israel, Dr Krieg said: "Raisi was being talked about as a successor (to Khamenei) but there was opposition to him within these circles.

"Even in the IRGC, who opposed him being successor. And there was speculation last night about this being an internal job, of basically someone killing him. There were so many conspiracy theories that came out and one of them was that he was killed by someone inside because they wanted to get rid of him.

Period	21 May 2024
Held at	Daily Mirror, United Kingdom