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The fearsome reputation of the 'Butcher of Tehran', who was the president of Iran and what is expected to happen after his death?

2024-05-20 08:37:21Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The fearsome reputation of the 'Butcher of Tehran', who was the
Ebrahim Raisi

Ebrahim Raisi has been one of Iran's most hard-liners, a fanatical and absolute believer in the Iranian revolution and its mission.

His death will remove from the Middle East one of its toughest and most uncompromising players.

A man who launched the first direct attack on Israel in his country's history and a hard-liner on whose watch hundreds of Iranians have been killed in the brutal crackdown on recent women-led protests, Raisi has an abundance of great blood on his hands.

His fearsome reputation goes back to the 1980s, a period that earned him the dubious Butcher of Tehran award.

He sat on the so-called death panel of four Islamic judges who sentenced thousands of Iranian prisoners of conscience to their deaths during the 1988 purge.

Raisi has been personally involved in two of the darkest periods of Iranian repression. And he was seen as one of the favorite contenders to replace the aging and ailing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Accepting him in that role would guarantee years more of the same… and years more of meddling abroad.

With Rais as president, Iran has engaged in increasingly adventurous interventions beyond its borders.

With him at the helm, Iran has helped the Houthis threaten international shipping in the Red Sea; helped Hezbollah engage Israel in a seven-month duel over its northern border; helped militias in Iraq attack and in some cases kill American soldiers; and helped Hamas fight its war against the Jewish state.

After two years of turmoil, economic failure and a stuttering recovery from the pandemic, Iran is divided and weakened.

Her government has lost much of its credibility and support because of the atrocities it has committed against its women.

Few outside the regime and its ranks of ardent followers will mourn a man who oversaw the death, imprisonment or torture of so many.

Iranians can dare to wish for less repressive times without it. Foreigners will hope for a less problematic Iran.

But there are plenty more where it came from, and the Supreme Leader will likely find another hardliner to replace him.

The fear will be of instability on the eve of the elections. The government has been undermined by recent events, its supreme leader is not well.

Now that Raisi is dead, his government will try to ensure the inheritance as soon as possible and without problems./ skynews


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