Dies in Helicopter Crash

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WHO IS EBRAHIM RAISI? IRAN’S PRESIDENT—NICKNAMED ‘BUTCHER OF
TEHRAN’—DIES IN HELICOPTER CRASH.

MARY WHITFILL ROELOFFS | Forbes | 5-20-24 | Condensed

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, an ultra-conservative with a history
of atrocity accusations who was widely considered a potential future
supreme leader of Iran, was confirmed dead
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after a helicopter transporting him and several other government
officials crashed
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a rural area of the country due to fog and bad weather, state news
agencies reported.

KEY FACTS

* Raisi assumed the presidency in 2021 following an election that
was widely protested
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over claims it was rigged in favor of the conservative, who was
ultimately victorious with 62%
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the votes cast (it was the lowest turnout for an Iranian election in
four decades).
* RAISI WAS A POLITICAL ALLY TO ALI KHAMENEI, THE SUPREME LEADER AND
MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN IRAN, AND THE
PRESIDENT HAD BEEN LARGELY SEEN AS A LIKELY SUCCESSOR
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TO THE POSITION.
* While president, Raisi worked to expand Iran's influence in the
Middle East while governing through a severe economic crisis
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and a historic escalation of the country’s conflict with Israel,
which recently put the countries on the brink of war
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* ENFORCEMENT OF IRAN’S "HIJAB AND CHASTITY LAW" SHARPLY INCREASED
UNDER RAISI’S ADMINISTRATION—he faced massive anti-government
protests around the deaths of Mahsa Amini
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and Armita Geravand
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both of whom died after allegedly violating the hijab law—and the
country’s has restricted women’s rights 
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sexual and reproductive healthcare in attempts to raise the
population.
* Raisi was sanctioned by the U.S.
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2019 after the Treasury Department accused him of participating in
decades of human rights violations, including the execution of
children in Iran, imprisonment of prominent human rights lawyers and
executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.

WHO IS LEADING IRAN?

Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, will serve as acting
president
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A leadership council that includes the speaker of parliament and the
head of the judiciary has 50 days to arrange for an election for a new
president.

KEY BACKGROUND

RAISI, 63, WAS A RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR WHO STARTED TO RISE UP IN THE
GOVERNMENT AFTER THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION OF 1979, WHICH TOPPLED THE
COUNTRY’S MONARCHY AND ESTABLISHED A NEW POLITICAL SYSTEM BASED ON
ISLAMIC, OR SHARIA, LAW.

* Since the revolution, women have been largely banned from higher
education
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* The marriage age was lowered to 9 for girls (it was raised to 13
in 2002).
* Tens of thousands of political prisoners have been executed while
Raisi worked in the country’s judiciary... as the prosecutor general
of Tehran between 1989 and 1994, when he earned the nickname "Butcher
of Tehran." He participated in a so-called death commission that
ordered the executions
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thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
* THE "WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM" UPRISING THAT BEGAN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2022
TOOK PLACE UNDER RAISI’S ADMINISTRATION. The campaign was sparked by
the death of Amini
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who died in police custody after she was arrested for not wearing the
hijab... mass protests have have led to the deaths of hundreds in Iran
and imprisonment of thousands more. The use of the death penalty to
instill fear in the aftermath of the "Woman Life Freedom" uprising.
* LAST YEAR, IRAN RECORDED 853 EXECUTIONS, THE HIGHEST IN A SINGLE
YEAR SINCE 2015.

_Please note that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian,
the chief negotiator of the original Iran Nuclear Deal, also died in
the crash._

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