Mr Raisi’s died along with Iran’s foreign minister and other officials in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protege of the country’s supreme leader, has died aged 63.
Mr Raisi, who earlier lost a presidential election to the relatively moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani in 2017, ended up coming to power four years later in a vote carefully managed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to clear any major opposition candidate.
Mass protests swept the country in 2022 after the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who had been detained over allegedly not wearing a hijab, or headscarf, to the liking of authorities. The Imam Reza charity, known as “Astan-e Quds-e Razavi” in Farsi, is believed to be one of the biggest. Mr Raisi holds up a photo of killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, as he addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2022 Mr Khamenei installed him as the head of Iran’s internationally criticised judiciary, long known for its closed-door trials of human rights activists and those with Western ties.
Mr Raisi was defiant when asked at a news conference after his election about the 1988 executions, which saw sham retrials of political prisoners, militants and others that would become known as “death commissions”. “I am proud of being a defender of human rights and of people’s security and comfort as a prosecutor wherever I was,” Mr Raisi said.
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