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The main effect of Raisi's death will be the loss of a capable, likely successor to Khomeini. Raisi was considered a top contender alongside Mojtaba Khomeini, Ali Khomeini's son, meaning his death ...
Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was elected Iran's president in June 2021. The 60-year-old, who takes office on 5 August, presented himself as...
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Aug 5, 2021 · Mr Raisi was one of four judges who sat on secret tribunals that came to be known as the "Death Committee" which condemned the prisoners to death. He has said the sentences were justified because...
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The political order that Khomeini ushered into being in 1979 emerged in struggle. Removing the shah, the dictator who had ruled Iran since 1941, was a relatively peaceful affair, but the contest between Islamists and their rivals was bloody and protracted. Khomeini’s acolytes battled traditional clergy, nationalists, and Marxists for power. The 197...
The parallel state struck back hard to dampen the euphoria that greeted the 2015 nuclear deal. In doing so, it provided graphic evidence of the internal struggles within the Iranian state. In April of this year, a three-hour audio file that was part of a classified oral history commissioned by an arm of the president’s office was anonymously leaked...
This familiar struggle between Iran’s elected government, under Rouhani, and its parallel state institutions, under Khamenei, could have ended as inconclusively as previous clashes. But an impetus from outside—namely, Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States in 2016—tipped the balance decisively toward the parallel state. The Rouha...
By this year’s election, Iran’s political and social landscape had been transformed. Rafsanjani, for decades a powerful force in elite politics, had died suddenly from a heart attack in 2017. Khatami remains under virtual house arrest, and the government forbids Iranian media from mentioning him or publishing his photograph. Ahmadinejad is still an...
This time, those who anticipate a repetition of the familiar conflict between the president and the supreme leader may be disappointed. The impending transition to the next supreme leader will loom over Raisi’s presidency. There is limited information on the 82-year-old leader’s health, except for a much-publicized prostate surgery in 2014. But it ...
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Aug 5, 2021 · Ebrahim Raisi was sworn into office as Iran’s new president on Thursday, consolidating the power of conservatives who now control all branches of the Islamic Republic’s government and are set to...
Ebrahim Raisi was born on 14 December 1960 to a clerical family in the Noghan district of Mashhad. His father, Seyed Haji, died when he was 5. His father, Seyed Haji, died when he was 5. [5] [14] [15] Ancestrally, Raisi was among Husayn ibn Ali (Hussaini) Sayyids , and he was connected to Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin Sayyids.
Jul 21, 2021 · In Tehran, Khomeini’s fatwa specifically named Hossein Ali Nayyeri, a Sharia judge, and Morteza Eshraghi, Tehran’s prosecutor general. Mostafa Pourmohammadi was later appointed from the intelligence ministry. Raisi served as Eshraghi’s deputy and became a de facto member of the committee.
