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Born in 1960 in Mashad, the second most essential metropolis in Iran, Ebrahim Raisi (who died within the crash of the helicopter he was touring in) was elected president within the first spherical of the elections on 18 June 2021 with nearly 18 million votes (61, 9% of the preferences). He was a pupil of theology and Islamic jurisprudence of the Supreme Chief, Ali Khamenei. At simply twenty years previous – within the wake of the occasions of the revolution – he was appointed prosecutor common of Karaj, one of many suburbs of Tehran. Chief prosecutor of the capital from 1989 to 1994, deputy head of the judiciary from 2004, then prosecutor common, in 2016 Raisi was positioned by Khamenei on the head of the Astan Quds Razavi, one of many largest spiritual foundations within the nation which oversees the shrine of Imam Reza of Mashad. Three years later he grew to become head of the judiciary. He’s a part of the Meeting of Specialists, the physique that elects the Supreme Chief.

Married to Jamileh Alamolhoda, professor on the Shahid Beheshti College of Tehran, and father of two daughters, he also can boast a household relationship (he’s the son-in-law) with the chief of Friday prayers in Mashad, the influential Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda. Sanctioned by the Trump Administration for his alleged abuses within the subject of human rights, for the opposition overseas he’s inextricably linked to the so-called ‘dying fee’, a particular tribunal wished by Ayatollah Khomeini himself who sentenced him to the gallows in 1988 – in accordance with the Heart for Human Rights in Iran – 1000’s of Iranian political prisoners. Interviewed in regards to the purges, Raisi denied any involvement and at his first press convention following the elections he claimed to have “at all times” defended “human rights”.

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He was way more intransigent in the direction of the Inexperienced Wave activists who in 2009 protested towards the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “To those that converse of Islamic compassion and forgiveness, we reply: we’ll proceed to face the rioters till the tip and – he mentioned – we’ll eradicate this sedition.” On June 19, the day his victory within the presidential elections was confirmed, he promised to do his “greatest to enhance the issues of the inhabitants” and two days later he responded with a agency “no” to a journalist who requested him if he was keen to fulfill the American President Joe Biden.