Ebrahim Raisi has managed to steer clear of Iran’s many factional entanglements and his political standing with Khamenei’s regime is high. Photograph: raisi.org
The Guardian: Ebrahim Raisi: the Iranian cleric emerging as a frontrunner for supreme leader
Many believe the custodian of the Islamic Republic’s holiest shrine is being groomed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle
A 56-year-old conservative cleric relatively unknown to the outside world is quietly emerging as a frontrunner to be Iran’s next supreme leader.
Ebrahim Raisi is the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, the wealthiest charity in the Muslim world and the organisation in charge of Iran’s holiest shrine. It is believed he is being groomed to be a leading candidate to succeed 77-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei’s tenure, which has spanned more than a quarter-century, will end only with his death; but the sudden death on Sunday of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the country’s greatest political survivor, has revived speculation about the succession. In 2014, Khamenei, the country’s ultimate decision-maker and its commander-in-chief, was announced to have undergone prostate surgery, which broke a taboo on the topic.
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WNU Editor: I posted on Ebrahim Raisi last year .... many do not see him as a friend of the West .... Is Ibrahim Raisi The Next Supreme Leader Of Iran? (September 27, 2016).
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