He won the presidential election with record low turnout: Who is Ebrahim Raisi?

Ebrahim Raisi, the 8th President of Iran, who took the oath of office after winning the presidential election with a record-low turnout, is one of the most likely names to sit in the position of Revolutionary Guidance after the country's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

With the election of conservative judge Ebrahim Raisi to the presidency in Iran, the term of Hasan Rouhani, who was known as a "moderate conservative" and pursued moderate policies towards the West during his 8-year period in power, officially ended. Thus, the conservatives, who, although not in power, generally had a say in the country's administration and prioritized politics distant from the West, regained power after 8 years.

Sayyid Ebrahim Raisolsadati (born 14 December 1960), commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi is an Iranian Principlist politician, Muslim jurist, and the eighth and current president of Iran since 3 August 2021, having been elected to the presidency in the 2021 election.

Ebrahim Raisi, who won the election on June 18, 2021, by a wide margin, with 62 percent of the votes, where the public participation rate was below 50 percent for the first time since 1979, began his duty as the 8th President of Iran.

He took part in the committee that decided to execute the imprisoned regime opponents.

Ebrahim Raisi, known as a legal cleric, was born on December 14, 1960, in Mashhad. After the revolution in 1979, he started his career as a Kereç prosecutor in 1981. Ebrahim Raisi, who rose rapidly in his position, quickly became the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Tehran at the age of 25.

Ebrahim Raisi took part in the four-person committee that decided to execute imprisoned regime opponents in 1988, upon the instructions of Iranian revolutionary leader Khomeini.

Opponents of the regime called the delegation in question the "death committee". The exact number of people sentenced to death by the courts at the time is unknown, but human rights organizations claim that at least 3,000 prisoners deemed a threat to the regime were executed and buried in unmarked mass graves in 1988.

He rose rapidly during the Khamenei period

Ebrahim Raisi, who rose rapidly in state positions during the Khamenei period after Khomeini's death, served as the Chief Prosecutor of Tehran between 1989 and 1994. Ebrahim Raisi, who was appointed President of the State Audit Institution in 1994, remained in this position for 10 years.

Ebrahim Raisi was appointed as First Deputy Chief of the Judiciary in 2004. Ebrahim Raisi, who was appointed as the Chief Prosecutor of Iran in 2014, was appointed as the President of the Imam Reza Shrine and Complex Foundation in the city of Mashhad by Khamenei in 2016.

Ebrahim Raisi, who was also a candidate in the presidential elections held in the country on May 19, 2017, lost the elections against then-President Hasan Rouhani.

He became the Head of the Judiciary in 2019

Ebrahim Raisi was appointed to the vacant Head of the Judiciary in March 2019, after the previous Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Amuli Sadik Larijani, was dismissed by Khamenei and appointed as the head of the Council for Identification of the Interests of the Order.

Ebrahim Raisi, who initiated "judicial corruption" investigations against senior judicial officials during Larijani's term of office, frequently emphasized addressing corruption, which is considered one of the country's biggest problems, during his term of office.

Added to the US sanctions list

Ebrahim Raisi, who was placed on the sanctions list by the United States in November 2019 for his role in the execution of political prisoners and the suppression of social unrest in 2009, has made no public statement about the role he played in the executions.

The name of Ebrahim Raisi, who is claimed to be supported by the Revolutionary Guards Army, is one of the most likely candidates to take the post of leader of the country after Khamenei.