Iran's elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, accused of mass executions

Iran's elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, accused of mass executions
June 20, 2021, 6:50 am

Iran's Presidential Election

The media Line reported an Iranian judge that human rights group say played a role in the executions of thousands of political prisoners in the 1988, Ebrahim Raisi, is the elected president of Iran. Ebrahim Raisi

Amnesty Internationsl says "the circumstances surrounding the fate of the victims and the whereabouts of their bodies are, to this day, systematically concealed by the Iranian authorities, amounting to ongoing crimes against humanity".

The results of Friday’s election were announced on Saturday.

Raisi, the Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi won Iran's presidential race by securing over 60 percent of votes.

According to The Media Line, the ultra-conservative and a hard-liner new president, had been expected to win. Voter turnout for the election was low at 48.8%. Some 3.7 million of the ballots were invalid, reportedly blank ballots representing protest votes. Ebrahim Raisi

Raisi has been under US sanctions since 2019 for human rights violations.

Hassan Rouhani, who is considered a moderate and who oversaw the negotiation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with the world powers, was barred from running again due to term limits. Negotiations to bring the US, which left the agreement in 2018, back into the nuclear deal and to bring Iran back into compliance with its requirements are ongoing in Vienna. Raisi will take office in August. Ebrahim Raisi

The leaders of countries including Russia, Turkey and Syria, as well as the terror organization, Hamas, congratulated Raisi on his victory. Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in a tweet called Raisi the “Butcher of Tehran,” and called for “renewed determination to immediately halt Iran’s nuclear program and put an end to its destructive regional ambitions.”

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