Who was Ebrahim Raisi? 10 points on chopper crash, Iran president
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Ebrahim Raisi was 63 years old. He was considered to be an ultraconservative cleric.
Ebrahim Raisi was born in Mashhad, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
Ebrahim Raisi had been travelling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province, when his chopper underwent a "hard landing" near Jofla city, which borders Azerbaijan.
Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials were travelling in the helicopter with Ebrahim Raisi.
Ebrahim Raisi became Iran's eighth president since the 1979 Islamic revolution He won the elections in 2021. It was expected that he would succeed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
After winning the presidency, Raisi had pledged that he would end efforts to build and improve trade ties with the West and focus on developing bilateral relations
In 2019, the United States accused Ebrahim Raisi of being involved in human rights violations and sanctioned him.