Ebrahim Raisi obituary: Brutal ideologue linked to Iran’s most repressive moments

Born: December 14th, 1960

Died: May 19th, 2024

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president and a top contender to succeed the nation’s supreme leader has died in a helicopter crash aged 63.

A conservative Shia Muslim cleric who had a hand in some of the most brutal crackdowns on opponents of the Islamic Republic, Raisi was a protege of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a devoted upholder of religious rule in the country.…

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