Mr Raisi, a hardline cleric, succeeds Hassan Rouhani, seen in the West as a relative moderate. It comes at a time of growing challenges for Iran, whose economy has been crippled by US-led sanctions. There are also heightened tensions with foreign powers who have blamed Iran for a deadly drone attack on a tanker near Oman last week, which Iran has denied.
Two people - British and Romanian security guards - were killed when the MV Mercer Street, operated by an Israeli-owned company, was struck. Britain, the US and Israel accused Iran of carrying it out. Tensions with the US have soared since , when then-President Donald Trump pulled out of a multilateral deal over Iran's nuclear programme and restored sanctions. Mr Raisi said after being sworn in that he would support "any diplomatic plans" to lift sanctions. All illegal US sanctions against the Iranian nation must be lifted," he said.
Raisi became deputy prosecutor in Karaj in The Great Massacre of Raisi was appointed deputy prosecutor of the Tehran judiciary in In , when he was only twenty-eight-years-old, Raisi was among two of the most important state officials in charge of administrating the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political prisoners during the mass killings of July-September In the course of about two months, approximately five thousand prisoners of conscience were slain—most inmates were hanged— according to ex-political prisoners, lists provided by human rights groups, political organizations, and information provided by bereaved family members.
The mass executions were carried out in many cities across Iran. Neither Raisi nor the politico-religious establishment that has ruled the country for the last forty-two years have ever spoken with clarity about that massacre. It remains a closely guarded state secret to this date.
Despite plenty of evidence and the tireless endeavors of the bereaved families, the exact number of executed people is unknown, as the Islamic Republic does not permit any independent investigation of the executions and penalizes all those striving for truth and justice.
Many families have yet to receive the death certificate of their loved ones, nor do they have a proper burial place. In an edited volume and as the first dedicated monograph on this dark chapter of modern Iranian history, Voices of A Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, , a number of writers, ex-political prisoners, and family members did their best to meticulously retrace the carnage. Others belonged to formations, such as the pro-Moscow communist Tudeh party of Iran or the Majority faction of the Fadaiyan-e Khalq, a leftist political organization whose political line was identical with the Tudeh party.
Both of these organizations had been loyal to the Islamic Republic until their arrest. Amid ongoing sanctions, Iran is grappling with runaway inflation, diminishing revenues, rolling blackouts and water shortages that have sparked scattered protests.
Barred from selling its oil abroad, Iran has seen its economy crumble and its currency crash, hitting ordinary citizens hardest. The decision of former President Donald Trump to withdraw from Iran's nuclear deal in has led Tehran, over time, to abandon every limitation on nuclear enrichment.
It also spins far-more advanced centrifuges and more of them than allowed under the accord, worrying nuclear nonproliferation experts, though Tehran insists its program is peaceful. Raisi, 60, a conservative cleric long cultivated by the supreme leader, has promised to end U. But he also has struck a hard-line stance, ruling out negotiations aimed at limiting Iranian missile development and support for regional militias — something the Biden administration wants to address.
The President described the equitable distribution of available water resources and extraction from deep water resources as two solutions to reduce water shortage problems in the short term and said, "No solution to solve water shortage problems will be ignored and the government considers reducing this problem as one of its most important responsibilities". The meeting of the Supreme Council for Economic Coordination of the Heads of Branches was held on Wednesday evening, chaired by Ayatollah Dr Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, during which it was decided to apply the policy of maximum savings in costs and expenses of departments, companies and boards of trustees to compensate the budget deficit.
The President said that the payment of salaries to individuals from the treasury should not be considered confidential and payments should be recorded in the relevant system in accordance with the legal regulations.
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