Tehran's Cabinet has met for an emergency meeting following the helicopter accident involving President Ebrahim Raisi and ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ebrahim Raisi, who has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 63, was the president of Iran and a ...
Raisi was born in November 1960 in a religious family in Mashhad. Following the insult to the Late Founder of the Islamic ...
Ebrahim Raisi was elected president of Iran in 2021. The hard-liner, who previously headed the country's judiciary, was known for his connections to Iran's religious leaders, including Ayatollah ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, shocking the nation and fuelling ...
In 1988, at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Ebrahim Raisi earned himself the nickname “the Butcher of Tehran”. He was one of four members of the so-called “death committee’’, which ordered ...
Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi has long been seen as a protege to Iran’s supreme leader and a potential successor ...
First the guards canceled family visits. Then they confiscated the prisoners’ radios. Then came the tribunals. Within weeks, 10,000 Iranian dissidents were dead. Sitting in judgment at some of ...
Raisi's sudden death, along with Iran's foreign minister and other officials in the helicopter crash Sunday in northwestern Iran, came as Iran struggles with internal dissent and its relations ...