Iran’s New President Earned His Post with Bloodshed
The U.S. shouldn’t remove sanctions on Ebrahim Raisi.
June 21, 2021
Iran’s New President Earned His Post with Bloodshed
The U.S. shouldn’t remove sanctions on Ebrahim Raisi.
On Saturday, Ebraham Raisi was announced the victor in the Islamic Republic’s presidential election—winning 62 percent of the vote, according to the regime’s official numbers. While subordinate to the unelected supreme leader, the Iranian president is formally the chief executive, and the face the country presents to the world. Raisi rose to prominence in the 1980s as Iran’s prosecutor general, in which capacity he played a key role in the execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988. Tzvi Kahn writes:
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