Helicopter crash Sunday killed the president of Iran on the US Senate floor.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky pointed out that his death is prompting an outpouring of sympathy from the world's dictators.

The PRC declared that the Chinese people had lost a good friend.

The Kremlin mourned a reliable partner and Prime Minister Orban of Hungary, whose government has pursued deeper trade relations with Iran in spite of Western sanctions, offered his thoughts and prayers as well.

I, too, would like to extend my condolences to the people of Iran for their long suffering under the brutal theocratic rule of the Islamic Republic.

As the great many Iranians would rather Western admirers stop lionizing a man known as the Butcher of Tehran.

Senator McConnell says Iran has moved steadily in just one direction toward more terrorist violence abroad and more repression at home.