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Sayyid Ebrahim Raisolsadati[ a] (14 December 1960 – 19 May 2024), better known as Ebrahim Raisi, [ b] was an Iranian politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. [ 10][ 11][ 12] He was a Muslim jurist and part of the Principlist group. Raisi was the son-in-law of Mashhad Friday ...
Ebrahim Raisi, known to many as the “Butcher of Tehran,” is being remembered for his brutality at home and belligerence abroad in his nearly three years as president. Raisi, 63, died on Sunday ...
Raisi was nicknamed the “Butcher of Tehran” for his role in the mass executions of thousands of political prisoners in the 1980s, and was considered a protege of Khamanei.
Raisi was sometimes notably referred to as the “Butcher of Tehran,” as activists accused him of being one of the four judges who oversaw the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners ...
In Tehran the special commission for the executions had 16 members representing the various authorities of the Islamic government—Imam Khomeini himself, the president, the chief prosecutor, the Revolutionary Tribunals, the ministries of Justice and Intelligence, and the administration of Evin and Gohar Dasht, the two prisons in the Tehran ...
Saeed Mortazavi ( Persian: سعید مرتضوی, born 26 November 1967 [1]) is an Iranian conservative politician, former judge and former prosecutor. He was the prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and Prosecutor General of Tehran, a position he held from 2003 to 2009. [2] He has been called as "butcher of the press" and a "torturer ...
Nicknamed “the butcher of Tehran,” he helped oversee the mass executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 as the country’s then-deputy prosecutor general.
Zohreh Lajevardi. Sayyid Assadollah Ladjevardi ( Persian: اسدالله لاجوردی; 1935 – 23 August 1998) was an Iranian conservative politician, prosecutor and warden. [ 1] He was one of the officials responsible for the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, [ 2][ 3] and was assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran on ...