https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/20/world-reacts-to-the-death-of-irans-president-ebrahim-raisi
World leaders have expressed their condolences on the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.. Rescue teams began searching for Raisi on Sunday afternoon after his aircraft

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-57421235
20 May. EPA. By David Gritten. BBC News. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, was a hard-line cleric close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His

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President Ebrahim Raisi pledged to "deal decisively" with the protests, which have now spread to most of Iran's 31 provinces. Officials say some 35 people have been killed since protests broke out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-63073148
29 September 2022. By David Gritten, BBC News. AFP. Ebrahim Raisi said those who took part in the "riots" would be "dealt with decisively" by security forces. Iran's president has warned that he

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By David Gritten. BBC News. At least 76 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces during 11 days of unrest sparked by the death of a woman in custody, activists say. Iran Human Rights

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On 26 October, protests were held throughout the country to mark the 40th day of mourning for Mahsa Amini. Fereshteh died after government forces allegedly shot her in the chest while she was on

https://qa.telesurenglish.net/funeral-ceremonies-for-iranian-president-raisis-death-begin/
The aircraft —a U.S.-made Bell 212 acquired in the 1970s— was found a day later with the lifeless bodies of its occupants. The crash also killed the governor of East Azerbaijan, Malik Rahmati, the Friday prayer leader of the city of Tabriz, Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem, as well as two pilots of the aircraft, a flight attendant, the head of presidential security, and a guard.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-raisi-vows-pursue-crackdown-protesters-after-execution-2022-12-09/
Item 1 of 6 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a meeting with the families of the security forces killed during the Iran's protests, in Tehran, Iran, December 9, 2022.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/iran-saddam-hussein-ebrahim-raisi-tehran-united-arab-emirates-b1987899.html
Thousands of mourners poured into the streets of Iranian cities on Thursday for the mass funeral of 250 victims of the Iran-Iraq war, a testament to the brutal conflict's widespread scale and

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Item 1 of 6 People attend a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/world/middleeast/iran-united-nations-raisi-protests.html
Sept. 21, 2022. President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran will make his debut on the world stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday as his country is rocked by antigovernment protests

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Raisi and his ally Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who in 2020 became the speaker of a new hardline parliament amid low turnout and wide disqualification of reformist candidates, lost the election to

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/world/middleeast/iran-sweden-trial-raisi.html
Iran's president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi, helped decide which prisoners lived or died during mass executions in 1988. A trial in Sweden may shed more light on his role.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-execution-uk-national-protests-mahsa-amini-alireza-akbari-sunak-rcna65819
British Iranian national Alireza Akbari was executed after being sentenced to death for "corruption on Earth and harming the Iran's internal and external security by passing on intelligence." AFP

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July, the month after President Raisi's election victory, saw the most executions - 51 - followed by September and December, it adds. At least 17 women were executed in total, eight more than in

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2021/jul/21/raisi-role-1988-massacre
Ebrahim Raisi, winner of Iran's 2021 presidential election, was a pivotal player in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988. At 27, Raisi was the youngest of four members named to the so-called Death Committee for Tehran after the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa at the end of the eight-year war with Iraq.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63003344
Tehran has seen angry protests. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said the death of a woman in police custody must be investigated after it sparked widespread protests. Speaking on a visit to

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/nigel-farage-reform-rally-birmingham-boo-bbc-bias
The BBC has been booed by Reform UK supporters as Nigel Farage renews his "popular" commitment to scrapping the broadcaster's licence fee. The Reform UK leader, who was speaking to supporters at the NEC in Birmingham, received a rapturous round of applause when he lambasted the BBC for its Question Time coverage on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/exclusive-un-expert-backs-probe-into-irans-1988-killings-raisis-role-2021-06-29/
EXCLUSIVE U.N. expert backs probe into Iran's 1988 killings, Raisi's role. By Stephanie ... Item 1 of 3 Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a news conference in Tehran, Iran June 21

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The attack in Kerman in southern Iran killed 84 people and wounded many more. The death toll was revised down on Thursday morning by the head of Iran's emergency services from an earlier figure of

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/irans-raisi-ahead-of-u-n-meeting-mass-execution-of-political-prisoners-a-proportionate-punishment/
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends a summit of leaders from the guarantor states of the Astana process in Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2022. (President Website/WANA/Handout via Reuters)