Ebrahim Raisi: Iran’s hardline president was deeply conservative leader with an increasingly aggressive foreign policy

Iran 's president, Ebrahim Raisi: deeply conservative on the domestic front, increasingly aggressive in foreign policy.

While still a young student, he joined the mass protests against the western-backed Shah in 1979 that would lead to the Islamic Revolution under the guidance of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a cleric until his dramatic return from exile in France. It was while still in that role, say human rights groups, that he became one of four judges sitting on the infamous Death Committee, a secret tribunal set up in 1988 to retry thousands of prisoners, many of them members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq group.

Raisi’s election win, which saw him succeed Hassan Rouhani as president, represented a push back from Iran’s ultra-conservatives against the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that gave Iran relief from international sanctions.Raisi’s first effort to displace Rouhani, in 2017, fell short, as Rouhani won 57 per cent of the vote. His profile, however, was given a new boost when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed him deputy chief of the Assembly of Experts in 2019.

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