Iran International: Raisi: Poorly Educated Cleric Who Blundered into a Failed Presidency
This is the story of a young member of the Death Committee that ordered the execution of around 5,000 political prisoners serving their prison terms in 1988. He loyally served the clerical regime for 45 years and finally was elected President after Ali Khamenei’s men barred most serious rivals from running as candidates.
In 1982, at the age of 22, he became the prosecutor of Hamedan and married Jamileh Alamolhoda, daughter of Ahmad Alamolhoda, the current Friday prayer Imam of Mashhad. At 25, in 1984, Raisi was appointed deputy head of the Revolutionary Court and, in 1988, as deputy prosecutor of Tehran, he joined the Death Committee, which directed the execution of thousands between August and September 1988.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202405198930
Russia is planning to influence the upcoming Iranian presidential election. https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042550/posts?page=6405#6405
Perhaps they have done so in the past ;-)