Born in 1960 into a strictly religious family in the country's second-largest city, Mashhad, Ebrahim Raisi underwent ... to Article 131 of Iran's constitution, if a president dies while in office ...

First the guards canceled family visits ... was a deputy prosecutor named Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric who in 2021 was elected president of Iran. Raisi, 63, was killed Sunday when his ...

All passengers and crew of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi were killed in the crash, according to Iranian Red Crescent Society head Pir Hossein Kolivand DUBAI, May 20.