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63 years old Ibrahim Raisi Elected President of Iran in 2021 in second attempt. After assuming office, he ordered the tightening of moral laws. Oversaw a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests and pushed for nuclear talks with world powers.
According to Reuters, Iran’s political system is divided between the religious leadership and the government, with the supreme leader rather than the president making the final decision on all major policies, but many people see Raisi as his 85-year-old mentor, the supreme leader, the Ayatollah. Ali was seen as a strong candidate to replace Khamenei.
Khamenei also strongly supported Raisi’s important policies.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, who always wears a black turban and quba, has been in office during a tumultuous period of confrontations abroad and mass protests at home, according to the AFP news agency.
Iranian president, whose career began in the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He was close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He took power in 2021, following which he faced several years of protests and tensions.
Like Khamenei, Raisi has often been outspoken at a time when Iran is in a state of tension with its declared enemies, the United States and Israel.
Raisi took power in an election in which more than half of the voters abstained. Many big politicians were barred from standing in the elections.
He replaced the moderate Hassan Rouhani, whose major achievement was the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that gave Iran relief from international sanctions.
Like other conservatives, Raisi has been heavily critical of his predecessor’s camp in 2018 following then-US President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran.
When Raisi took power, Iran was suffering from economic and social crisis. After portraying himself as a leader of the poor fighting corruption, Raisi announced austerity measures that led to a sharp rise in the prices of some essential goods. Inflation caused agitation.
Then, in late 2022, nationwide protests erupted following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini following she was arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s strict Islamic code for women’s dress.
In a historic ceremony in March 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced a surprise agreement that restored diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Earlier on Sunday, Raisi emphasized Iran’s support for the Palestinians, saying that ‘Palestine is the first problem of the Muslim world.’
After the Islamic revolution, support for the Palestinians has been a central point of Iran’s foreign policy.
Head of Judiciary
Born in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad in 1960, Raisi studied theology and Islamic jurisprudence under Khamenei.
He was married to Jameela Alam El Huda, a lecturer in Educational Sciences at Shahid Behishti University in Tehran. They have two daughters.
In the wake of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the US-backed monarchy, Raisi was named Prosecutor General of the city of Karaj near Tehran at the age of just 20.
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He served as Prosecutor General of Tehran from 1989 to 1994, Deputy Chief of the Judicial Authority for a decade from 2004, and then National Prosecutor General in 2014.
In 2016, Khamenei put Raisi in charge of a charitable foundation that manages the shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad and controls large industrial and other assets.
Three years later, the Supreme Leader appointed him as the head of the judicial authority. Raisi was also a member of the Council of Experts, which elects the Supreme Leader.
Raisi’s name is on Washington’s sanctions blacklist for his involvement in ‘serious human rights violations’. These accusations were dismissed as baseless by Tehran authorities.
In the case of Iran’s exiled opposition and human rights groups, his name evokes the mass executions of Marxists and other leftists in 1988, when Raisi was deputy prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
Raisi denied any role when asked regarding the death penalty in 2018 and 2020. Although he appreciated the order issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Islamic Iran.
In 2009, when the ‘Green Movement’ rallied once morest populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial second term win, Raisi did not compromise.
A visit to Pakistan
Ibrahim Raisi came on a three-day visit to Pakistan in April 2024 at a time when two months earlier there had been back-to-back attacks on the border between Pakistan and Iran. First, on January 16, Iran launched a missile attack inside Pakistani territory, allegedly targeting the hideout of an organization called Jaish-ul-Adl. Earlier on December 15, 2023, 11 police personnel lost their lives in the Iranian city of Rusk in an alleged attack by Jaish-ul-Adl.
Just two days later, Pakistan launched a retaliatory strike inside Iran’s Baluchistan Sistan province, saying it had targeted secret bases of the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front.
In these circumstances, the tension between the two neighboring countries had increased and in this context, when President Raisi visited Pakistan, he was warmly welcomed. The Iranian president also visited Lahore and Karachi during this visit.
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