Iran election: Hardliner Raisi will become president

 Iran election: Hardliner Raisi will become president

Published19 June

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Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi has won Iran's presidential election in a race that was widely seen as being designed to favour him.


He thanked Iranians for their support, after securing 62% of the votes.


Mr Raisi is Iran's top judge and holds ultra-conservative views. He is under US sanctions and has been linked to past executions of political prisoners.


Iran's president is the second-highest ranking official in the country, after the supreme leader.


Who is Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's next president?

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Mr Raisi will be inaugurated in early August, and will have significant influence over domestic policy and foreign affairs. But in Iran's political system it is the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the top religious cleric, who has the final say on all state matters.


Iran is run according to conservative Shia Islamic values, and there have been curbs on political freedoms since its Islamic Revolution in 1979.


Many Iranians saw this latest election as having been engineered for Mr Raisi to win, and shunned the poll. Official figures showed voter turnout was the lowest ever for a presidential election, at 48.8%, compared to more than 70% for the previous vote in 2017.


Who is Ebrahim Raisi?

The 60-year-old cleric has served as a prosecutor for most of his career. From an early age, Mr Raisi held powerful and high-ranking positions - when he was just 20 years old, he was already serving as the chief prosecutor of the city of Karaj.


He was appointed head of the judiciary in 2019, two years after he lost by a landslide to Hassan Rouhani in the last presidential election.


Mr Raisi has presented himself as the best person to fight corruption and inequality, and solve Iran's economic problems. "Our people's grievances over shortcomings are real," he said as he cast his vote in Tehran.


The man who wears a black turban identifying him in Shia tradition as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad is fiercely loyal to Iran's ruling clerics, and has even been seen as a possible successor to Ayatollah Khamenei.

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