> The odds are against this being an accident.

What makes you think so? Looking for data, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_gov.... It lists 3 helicopter accidents (one of them this year) and one helicopter bombing.

Also, weather in the region apparently isn’t good for safely flying helicopters (FTA: “He said the visibility in the mountainous and wooded area was down to only about five meters.”)

That, to me, doesn’t support a claim “The odds are against this being an accident”. Do you have data that does?

All else being the same, Iranian aircraft will actually be likelier to be involved in accidents than aircraft in similar countries, due to the unavailability of spare parts caused by western sanctions.

Somehow it's always helicopter crashes. Important people die in these crashes all the time. It's cuz they're unsafe, not malicious intent.

The Indian head of military forces, the Leicester city billionare.... those are just a couple off the top of my head.

and how did you get to that conclusion? to me its odds are very much for technical failure and harah weather caused it to crash. much more logical