Dr. Ibrahim Raisi, who was a victim of a helicopter accident, was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1960. His father was a scholar. His father died when Ibrahim Raisi was 5 years old.
Ibrahim Raisi was elected as the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2021 and took oath as the eighth President of Iran.
After the Iranian revolution in 1979, Dr. Ibrahim Raisi worked in several positions in Iran’s judicial system. In 1980, at the age of 20, he became the Prosecutor General of Karaj. Serve with
In 1983, he married Jamila Al-Mahuda, daughter of Ahmad Al-Mahuda, the Friday prayer imam of Mashhad, and they have two daughters.
Dr. Ibrahim Raisi was appointed as Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran in 1985 and moved to the capital of Iran. In 1988, while serving as Deputy Prosecutor, Dr. Ibrahim Raisi served as one of the 4 judges who presided over these secret tribunals. was part of what was known as the Death Committee.
Raisi supported stability in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US forces
After Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader, Raisi was appointed as the Prosecutor of Tehran by the new Chief Justice Mohammad Yazdi and he held this position from 1989 to 1994. In 1994, he was appointed as the head of the General Inspection Office.
He served as the Deputy Chief Justice from 2004 to 2014, while he was the Prosecutor General of Iran from 2014 to 2016.
In the elections held in Iran in 2017, Raisi emerged as a candidate for the president, but in this election, the then president Hassan Rouhani defeated him with a huge majority and won for the second time.
Raisi was elected the eighth president of Iran in 2021 with 62.9 percent of the votes. A year after taking power, the government of Ibrahim Raisi faced protests across the country as a result of the death of 22-year-old Mehsa Amini.
In foreign policy, Ibrahim Raisi was considered a supporter of regional autonomy, after the withdrawal of American forces, he supported stability in Afghanistan and said that no terrorist group like ISIS would be allowed to gain a foothold along the Afghan border.
Raisi strengthened strategic ties with Syria, strongly opposed the Saudi blockade in Yemen, announced Russia’s support in the Ukraine war, and as a result of meeting with President Xi Jinping in China in 2023, the two countries signed 20 agreements. , and a few days later, under the leadership of Ibrahim Raisi, Iran and Saudi Arabia restored diplomatic relations, which had been severed since 2016.
He visited Pakistan in April and pledged to increase mutual trade to 10 billion dollars
Last month in April, President Raisi paid a 3-day visit to Pakistan in which both countries pledged to increase mutual trade to 10 billion dollars.
Ebrahim Raisi, a supporter of an independent Palestinian state, reiterated Iran’s unconditional support for the Palestinians in a speech after the inauguration of the dam along with Azerbaijan’s president on Sunday.