{"id":245975,"date":"2021-08-29T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T18:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=245975"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:34:34","slug":"iran-ebrahim-raisis-cabinet-demonstrates-malign-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/uncategorized\/iran-ebrahim-raisis-cabinet-demonstrates-malign-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s Cabinet Demonstrates Malign Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists\"<\/p>\n

The Iranian regime\u2019s new\u00a0President Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> held his first cabinet meeting on Thursday, a day after all but one of his initial appointees were approved by the\u00a0handpicked\u00a0parliament. In it, he\u00a0claimed that\u00a0the government\u00a0should\u00a0focus on policies that would \u201cimprove people\u2019s livelihoods,\u201d but the make-up of the new administration casts much doubt on the seriousness of its stated priorities. In fact,\u00a0the Iranian people believed that\u00a0Raisi would have the best interests of the people in mind long before\u00a0his cabinet was appointed or confirmed.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Less\u00a0than ten percent of the country\u2019s eligible voters took part in the\u00a0sham\u00a0election that\u00a0ultimately resulted in Raisi\u2019s presidency\u00a0on June 18. Even regime authorities acknowledged that\u00a0the majority<\/a> of\u00a0the population sat out the election and that many of the ballots that were cast were invalid.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raisi\u2019s win was\u00a0orchestrated well in advance by\u00a0the regime\u2019s\u00a0Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. After Khamenei made it clear that he intended for Raisi to take over the presidency following Hassan Rouhani\u2019s second term, the Guardian Council barred<\/a> all other high-profile candidates from the ballot, leaving only six non-viable challengers, two of whom later dropped out for the expressed purpose of throwing their weight behind Raisi.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raisi became the regime\u2019s president while many Iranians have personally suffered or lost loved ones as a result of his actions as a government prosecutor and clerical judge. During the summer of 1988, Raisi was one of the main figures in the \u201cdeath commissions<\/a>\u201d that carried out over 30,000 executions of political prisoners. In 2019, he took control of the entire judiciary and oversaw key aspects of the regime\u2019s worst crackdown on dissent in recent memory. Above 1,500 people were killed immediately after the outbreak of a nationwide uprising in November of that year, and thousands more were subjected to torture for months after being arrested in connection with it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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