Iran declares five days of mourning as President Ebrahim Raisi is confirmed dead First Vice President ... Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said. Raisi's body would later be taken to the capital ...

In May 2024, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash. The final cause was attributed to weather conditions, states Reuters. Citing an investigation, the agency writes that the ...

Recent elections, including the contest in 2021 which brought Raisi to the presidency, were also marked by the systematic exclusion of moderate and pro-reform rivals by the oversight body.

Iran's new president, Ebrahim Raisi, has been sworn into office, following his election victory in June. Mr Raisi, a hardline cleric, succeeds Hassan Rouhani, seen in the West as a relative moderate.

But the electoral defeat did not deter Raisi. In 2019, he was appointed the Chief Justice. In the same year, he was named deputy chief of the 88-member Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that ...