Israel National News reports: “As soon as the news broke on Sunday that the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had crashed far north-western corner of the country, Iranians who oppose the regime began to celebrate. Celebrations then only increased after the President was announced to be dead.

According to several sources, Iranian citizens in several locations, including Raisi’s hometown of Mashhad, shot off fireworks and played music in the middle of the night to celebrate the news.

Iranian dissenters at home and abroad also took to social media as well to express their feelings following the death of the leader who was known as ‘the Butcher of Tehran’ for his role in sentencing thousands of prisoners of conscience to death in the 1980s…”