IRAN TO INAUGURATE PRESIDENT-ELECT RAISI ON AUGUST 5

Mon 28 June 2021:

The inauguration ceremony for Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi will take place on August 5, the spokesperson for the parliament’s presidium, Seyyed Nezamuddin Mousavi, told the Mehr news agency.

Earlier, lawmaker Alireza Salimi said, as cited by the media outlet, that the event will be held on August 3.

Eleven committees will be reportedly involved in organizing the ceremony due to its international importance.

Chief justice Raisi won the June 18 election with nearly 62%. The turnout totaled 48.8%, which is a historical low.

Mass executions

The youngest member of the 1988 Tehran death committee, Raisi has been accused of systematically sending as many as 3,000 people to slaughter.

When he was head of the judiciary floggings and executions flourished, yet many see this election as a staging post to his becoming supreme leader when Ayatollah Khamenei dies.

Raisi was 28 at the time of the massacres – a Tehran deputy prosecutor who stood in on the death committee for Morteza Eshraghi, Tehran’s chief prosecutor.

Born in Iran’s holy second city of Mashhad, the birthplace of the current supreme leader and relatively close to the border with Turkmenistan, his father died when he was five, and by the time of the 1979 revolution, he was a young seminarian in the holy city of Qom.

He was immediately picked to become the prosecutor-general of the city of Karaj, outside Tehran, at the age of only 20, and then moved to Tehran.

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