US ‘condolences’ for Iran’s Raisi prompt outrage

“Some of the worst human rights abuses occurred during his tenure as president, especially the human rights abuses against the women and girls of Iran,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday. “That said, we regret any loss of life. You don’t want to see anyone die in a helicopter crash.”

Raisi came to Iran’s presidency in 2021 after an extended career in the judiciary. And his tenure in that office coincided with the expansion of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, making him a key player in the provision of Iranian weapons to Russian forces, as well as an eruption of violence across the Middle East in connection to the war between Israel and Hamas, the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist organization that rampaged across southern Israel on Oct. 7.

Raisi acquired that appellation during his long career in Iran’s judiciary. Amnesty International investigators identified him as “a member of the ‘death commission’ which forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in secret thousands of political dissidents in Evin and Gohardasht prisons near Tehran in 1988,” as they noted in 2021. He is also regarded as a key figure in the crackdown on Iranian dissidents in 2019.

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