Ibrahim Raisi death, following the crash of the helicopter carrying him and Amir Abdollahian, the regime’s foreign minister, in Azerbaijan province, deals a strategic blow to Khamenei’s policy of contraction and tight control over his government to continue oppression and terrorism.
Khamenei needed a puppet to ruthlessly suppress and massacre dissidents amidst deep societal dissatisfaction with his regime. Ibrahim Raisi, an active element in the regime’s judicial apparatus from the outset of the mullahs’ rise to power, was notorious for his involvement in the torture and execution of regime opponents. He gained infamy for his role in the mass execution of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988.
With only a sixth-grade education, Ibrahim Raisi was uneducated compared to figures like the Larijani brothers, one of whom headed the parliament and the other the judiciary, and one of the clergy members of the Guardian Council, appointed by Khamenei since 2001. He was not........