Rights groups say that as a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ibrahim Raisi sat on a “death committee” overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital. Now three decades later president, and seen by many as Iran’s potential next supreme leader, Raisi is presiding over an uncoordinated response to domestic and international […]
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Sunday that Iran’s Gulf Arab neighbors would work to strengthen their security if Tehran acquires nuclear weapons. Indirect US-Iranian talks to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, which Washington pulled out in 2018, stalled in September. The UN nuclear chief has expressed concern over Tehran’s […]
“Iran has the most progressive constitution in the world” because it matches “ideals with democracy”, Raisi said in a speech to lawmakers, quoting an unnamed African lawyer he said he had met several years earlier. “The constitution guarantees the (existence) of the Islamic order,” he said, adding that it also “guarantees fundamental rights and legitimate […]
