Ebrahim Raisi's death won't change much for the people of Iran or Iranian politics.
in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Several others, including Tehran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, were also on board and perished in the rugged northern Iranian wilderness.Raisi, 63, had served as president since 2021. A longtime regime apparatchik, he was nicknamed “the Hangman” and “the Butcher” for his role in the execution of thousands of political prisoners in the late 1980s.
When Raisi first ran for president, he lost the 2017 election to Hassan Rouhani, who was widely hailed in the West as a “moderate.” But a system such as the Islamic Republic produces , not “moderates” as the West understands the term. Those who ascend due so because they’re deemed acceptable by the powers that be.
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