Islamic Republic of Iran President Ibrahim Raisi was chosen in 2021. He was born in Mashhad in 1960 and died in 2024 in a helicopter crash. May Allah Rest in Peace Ebrahim Raisi. Mashhad is the second biggest city in Iran and home to one of the holiest places for Shia Muslims.
Tradition says that Ibrahim wore a black crown when he was only five years old to show that he was in the Aal-e-Muhammad, peace be upon him. He started going to a school in the holy city of Qom when he was 15 years old to get an education. People knew him as a very brilliant kid.
As a student, he took part in protests against the Shah of Iran, who was backed by the West. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution in 1979, which ended the rule of the Shah of Iran. He then left the country. Ibrahim Raisi became a judge after the Islamic Revolution. power and worked as an attorney in many places. He knows all about Islamic rules and morals. Besides that, he also learned about the justice system in the West.
He also had the chance to learn about religion and politics from Ayatollah Khamenei. Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, took office in 1981. At age 25, Ibrahim Raisi was named deputy prosecutor of Tehran. He was one of the four judges while he was in this job. He was a member of the courts set up by the Islamic Revolution in 1988. People said that as a judge, he gave out a lot of death sentences, but he said that those punishments were in line with the fatwas of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
After becoming Tehran’s prosecutor, Ebrahim Raisi was head of the State Inspectorate Organization and first deputy head of the court. In 2014, he was named Iran’s Prosecutor General. It is known as the guardian of “Astan Quds Rizvi” and is in charge of the shrine of the eighth Imam, Hazrat Imam Reza Ali, in Mashhad, as well as all the social institutions and groups that are connected to it. He won the second time with a huge majority, getting 57% of the votes in the first round of voting.
“Anti-corruption fighter” Ebrahim Raisi came in second place in the 2017 election with 38% of the vote. He was also chosen to be the Vice Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, which is made up of 88 scholars and is in charge of choosing the next Supreme Leader.
Raisi made changes to the justice system that lowered the number of people in the country who were put to death or hanged for drug crimes. People who live in the country permanently and work for groups that are against the Islamic government of Iran are still being targeted and punished. The president doesn’t like it when people know about his personal life, so not much is known about his family. His wife, Jamila Ibrahim, is a teacher at Shahid Behishti University in Tehran, and he is the imam of the Jama Masjid in Mashhad, Ayatollah Ahmed Alam Al Huda’s daughter.
