Ebrahim Raisi

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Ebrahim Raisi, 2021

Ebrahim Raisolsadati (full name Persian ابراهیم رئیس‌الساداتی, DMG Ebrāhīm-e Ra'īso's-Sādātī ; born December 14, 1960 in Mashhad , Iran ), popularly and internationally better known as Ebrahim Raisi (ابراهیم رئیسی, DMG Ebrāhīm-e Ra'īsī , English also Ebraheem Raeesi ) has been the President of Iran since August 3, 2021 . He is regarded as ultra-conservative and run by human rights organizations and special rapporteurs of the United Nations crime against humanity accused. As a result, Raisi is on the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons in the United States .

Career and personal life

Ebrahim Raisi sees himself as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed and comes from a family of devout clerics of Persian ethnicity. He attended the Qom Theological College and from 1975 was a student of Hossein Nuri Hamedani , Morteza Motahhari and Ali Meschkini at the Ayatollah Borudscherdi School, among others . Prior to reporting in the Iranian media, Raisi referred to himself as ayatollah . However, the media criticized that his knowledge of the Shiite religion was insufficient to do justice to this title. Since then, Raisi has referred to himself as Hodschatoleslam , a clerical rank with lower status and fewer privileges. His study of private law is also considered controversial.

Ebrahim Raisi in 1980

At the age of 20 years Ebrahim Raisi 1981, two years after the " Islamic Revolution ", prosecutor in Karaj . Since the principle of the separation of powers does not apply in today's theocratic Iran , Raisi had and still holds legislative and religious as well as political and media offices at the same time. He is believed to be one of the main people responsible for the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988 , known as the Khomeini massacre .

From 1994 to 2004 he was chairman of the state general inspection office of Iran, then until 2014 the country's first deputy chief judge.

After the crackdown on protests following the Iranian presidential election in 2009 , Raisi was charged with investigating allegations that protesters had been raped in Iranian prisons. At the end of the investigation, legal proceedings were opened only against those who had made the allegations.

He has been a prosecutor at the Special Court for the Clergy since 2012 . In 2014, Raisi was the General Prosecutor of Iran for two years as the successor to Gholamhossein Mohseni-Eschei . From 2009 to 2019, Raisi was administrative clerk on the Expert Council . Since 2019, Raisi has officially been the chief judge of Iran as the successor to Sadegh Larijani and, as the successor to Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, the first deputy spokesman for the Expert Council. From 2012 to 2016 Raisi was chairman of the board of the Broadcasting of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRIB) and from 2016 to 2019 the custodian of the Muslim foundation Astan-e Qods-e Razavi .

In 2017 , Raisi ran for the office of Iranian President for the first time , but was defeated by incumbent Hassan Rouhani . In 2021, Raisi was the favorite to succeed Rouhani in the run-up to the presidential election . Since then, at the latest, he has also been regarded as the successor to Ali Khamenei as the supreme leader of Iran , which is decided by the Council of Experts .

Ebrahim Raisi is married to Jamileh Alamolhoda, associate professor at Shahid Beheschti University , and has two daughters.

Raisi was sworn in as president on August 3, 2021 after winning the elections .

Political opinions

Ebrahim Raisi is an advocate of gender segregation and the death penalty . He also supports the Islamization of universities and censorship on the Internet and rejects Western culture . In the economic field, he envisions a kind of resistance economy against foreign sanctions.

Raisi is a member of the clerical-conservative association of fighting clergy and is considered to be anti-Israel . Until 1987 he was a member of the Islamic Republican Party .

Web links

Commons : Ebrahim Raisi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ spiegel.de: Extremely low voter turnout: Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi becomes the new president in Iran. Retrieved June 19, 2021 .
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  5. ↑ مدرک تحصیلی ابراهیم رئیسی ؛ 'شش کلاس' یا 'دکترا' ؟. In: BBC News فارسی. Archived from the original on June 8, 2021 ; Retrieved June 8, 2021 (Persian).
  6. ↑ Blood-soaked secrets with Iran's 1998 Prison Massacres are ongoing crimes against humanity. Amnesty International , accessed December 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b Iran election: Ebrahim Raisi - iron defender of the reactionaries. In: document. Retrieved June 19, 2021 .
  8. ^ A b Christiane Hoffmann: Election in Iran: How the hardliners want to secure all power. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved June 19, 2021 .
  9. ↑ Ebrahim Raeesi Was Officially Appointed as the Chief of Iran's Judiciary. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Monika Bolliger: Iran - Presidential Election: Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner on the way to power. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved June 19, 2021 .
  11. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi: Iran's new president sworn in. Retrieved August 3, 2021 .
  12. ↑ بانوان اولین مدافع تفکیک جنسیتی هستند. Retrieved December 31, 2014 .
  13. ↑ The Iranian Fuel Revolt Of 2019. In: Memri . Accessed January 19, 2020 .
  14. ↑ رئیسی: دانشگاهها باید اسلامی شوند. Retrieved May 8, 2017 (Persian).
  15. ↑ ابراهیم رییسی: باید به دنبال حذف ترویج فرهنگ غربی از متن جامعه باشیم. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
  16. ↑ اسلامی‌ نکردن دانشگاه‌ها کشور را با مشکل مواجه می‌کند / رشد اینترنت ما را وادار به بازنگری می‌کند. Retrieved May 11, 2017 .
  17. ↑ زندگی نامه :: سید ابراهیم رئیسی. March 23, 2017, accessed June 19, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Raisi, Ebrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raisol-Sadat, Ebrahim; Raisi, Ebrahim; Raeesi, Ebraheem
SHORT DESCRIPTION Iranian clergyman
BIRTH DATE December 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Mashhad , Empire of Iran