President of Iran killed in helicopter crash
Remembering the dignified life of Dr. Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi
As is being reported in the media throughout the world, the President of Iran was killed in a helicopter crash. With appreciation of the dignified life and important contributions of Dr. Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, I repost my June 16, 2023, commentary, “Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi in Latin America: Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba forge a counterhegemonic alliance.”
Seyed Ebrahim Raisi was born in 1960 in the Nogham district of Mashad in Iran in the breast of a family of Persian clerics. He entered the seminary of the Holy City of Qom at the age of fifteen. He studied theology at the Ayatollah Mousavinejad School of Theology and obtained a doctorate in jurisprudence at Shahid Motahari University.
He began his career in the judicial system in 1980, when at twenty years of age he was among the first group of young clerics to be appointed to the newly established Islamic judicial system following the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in 1…