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[[File:Raisi.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Ebrahim "the Butcher" Raisi became president in June 2021.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/iran-election-ebrahim-raisi-judiciary-turnout-middle-east-4d60554fd608a5dea2c76a303ec352d8</ref>]]
 
[[File:Raisi.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Ebrahim "the Butcher" Raisi became president in June 2021.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/iran-election-ebrahim-raisi-judiciary-turnout-middle-east-4d60554fd608a5dea2c76a303ec352d8</ref>]]
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'''Ebrahim Raisi''' became president of [[Iran]] in June 2021.  Prior to becoming president, Raisi was the head of Iran’s [[judiciary]].  He is known among the populace as ''The Butcher.''<ref>https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/06/iran-elects-new-president-ebrahim-the-butcher-raisi-who-tortured-pregnant-women-and-ordered-despicable-mass-executions.html</ref>
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'''Ebrahim Raisi''' became president of [[Iran]] in June 2021.  Prior to becoming president, Raisi was the head of Iran’s [[judiciary]].  He is known among the populace as ''The Butcher.''<ref name=fr24>https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/06/iran-elects-new-president-ebrahim-the-butcher-raisi-who-tortured-pregnant-women-and-ordered-despicable-mass-executions.html</ref>
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The ''Butcher of Tehran'' is responsible for some 30,000 deaths<ref>[https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1439984/iran-presidential-election-Ebrahim-Raisi-Hassan-Rouhani-latest Butcher' linked to 30000 deaths set to become new President of Iran], Express, UK, May 23, 2021. ''THE mastermind behind the massacre of 30000 dissidents has emerged as the regime's favourite to win next month's presidential .''</ref>
      
He is more radical than the other radicals.  
 
He is more radical than the other radicals.  
    
==Early career==
 
==Early career==
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In 1980, at the age of just 20, Raisi was appointed prosecutor of the revolutionary court of Karaj, west of Tehran, and by 1988 he had been promoted deputy prosecutor of Tehran.  Raisi was a member of the so-called “Death Commission”, which ordered thousands to be killed in the massacre of 1988.  He then became one of four individuals selected to carry out the slaughter of imprisoned activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).  Some 30,000 men, women and children held in prisons all over Iran were lined up against the wall and shot within just a few months, say those battling to oust the regime.<ref>https://amp.news.com.au/world/middle-east/horror-acts-of-irans-next-president-ebrahim-the-butcher-raisi/news-story/47fe66081ede923244af732a3bcd6926</ref>
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In 1980, at the age of just 20, Raisi was appointed prosecutor of the revolutionary court of Karaj, west of Tehran, and by 1988 he had been promoted deputy prosecutor of Tehran.  Raisi was a member of the so-called “Death Commission”, which ordered thousands to be killed in the massacre of 1988.  He then became one of four individuals selected to carry out the slaughter of imprisoned activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).  Some 30,000<ref>[https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1439984/iran-presidential-election-Ebrahim-Raisi-Hassan-Rouhani-latest Butcher' linked to 30000 deaths set to become new President of Iran], Express, UK, May 23, 2021. ''THE mastermind behind the massacre of 30000 dissidents has emerged as the regime's favourite to win next month's presidential.''</ref> men, women and children held in prisons all over Iran were lined up against the wall and shot within just a few months, say those battling to oust the regime.<ref>https://amp.news.com.au/world/middle-east/horror-acts-of-irans-next-president-ebrahim-the-butcher-raisi/news-story/47fe66081ede923244af732a3bcd6926</ref>
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The ''Butcher of Tehran'' has also led  torturing pregnant women and ordered despicable mass-executions.<ref name=fr24/>.
    
==Presidency==
 
==Presidency==
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