Raisi’s rise ‘Holy man’ who has taken a bloody path to the top
Jun 25, 2021
2 minutes
By Patrick Wintour
If Joe Biden thinks Vladimir Putin deserves to be called a killer, his description of Ebrahim Raisi, the president-elect of Iran, is likely to be unprintable.
The youngest member of the 1988 Tehran death committee, 60-year-old Raisi has been accused of systematically sending as many as 3,000 people to slaughter. When he was head of the judiciary, floggings and executions flourished, yet many see
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