page_title: Ebrahim Raisi
hierarchical_section_title: Ebrahim Raisi
caption_attribution_description: English: Ebrahim Raisi
context_page_description: Sayyid Ebrahim Raisol-Sadati, commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi, is an Iranian politician, Muslim cleric and the current Chief Justice of Iran, having been appointed on 7 March 2019. He has served in several positions in Iran's Judicial system, such as Attorney General, and Deputy Chief Justice. He was also Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran in the 1980s and 1990s. He was Custodian and Chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, a bonyad, from 2016 until 2019. He is also a member of Assembly of Experts from South Khorasan Province, being elected for the first time in 2006 election. He is the son-in-law of Mashhad Friday prayer leader and Grand Imam of Imam Reza shrine, Ahmad Alamolhoda.
  Raisi ran for president in 2017 as the candidate of the conservative Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces, losing to moderate incumbent President Hassan Rouhani, 57% to 38.3%.
  Sometimes described as a "conservative hardliner", he is said to have proved his "proved his revolutionary fervor" by helping lead the mass executions of Iranian political prisoners in 1988, and has been "frequently mentioned" as a successor to Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader of Iran.
context_section_description: Sayyid Ebrahim Raisol-Sadati (Persian: سید ابراهیم رئیس‌الساداتی‎; born 14 December 1960), commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi (Persian: ابراهیم رئیسی‎, pronunciation ), is an Iranian politician, Muslim cleric and the current Chief Justice of Iran, having been appointed on 7 March 2019. He has served in several positions in Iran's Judicial system, such as Attorney General (2014 to 2016), and Deputy Chief Justice (2004 to 2014). He was also Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran in the 1980s and 1990s. He was Custodian and Chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, a bonyad, from 2016 until 2019. He is also a member of Assembly of Experts from South Khorasan Province, being elected for the first time in 2006 election. He is the son-in-law of Mashhad Friday prayer leader and Grand Imam of Imam Reza shrine, Ahmad Alamolhoda.
  Raisi ran for president in 2017 as the candidate of the conservative Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces, losing to moderate incumbent President Hassan Rouhani, 57% to 38.3%.
  Sometimes described as a "conservative hardliner", he is said to have proved his "proved his revolutionary fervor" by helping lead the mass executions of Iranian political prisoners in 1988, and has been "frequently mentioned" as a successor to  Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader of Iran.
caption: Raisi in 2018
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