Ebrahim Raisi

He was born in the Noghan district of Mashhad, began clerical studies there at fifteen, and rose through the revolutionary judiciary: prosecutor in Karaj and Hamadan, deputy prosecutor of Tehran, deputy chief justice, attorney general, and from 2016 custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, the Imam Reza shrine foundation. He was also a member of the Assembly of Experts from 2006 and its first deputy chairman, and in 2019 became chief justice. ^{1 2}

After a first, unsuccessful candidacy in 2017, he won the presidency in 2021. On 19 May 2024, returning from the Azerbaijan border, his helicopter crashed in mountainous fog near Varzaqan and all aboard were killed; after funeral processions in several cities he was buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad on 23 May 2024, as the English article recounts. ¹

His faith is recorded as Shia Twelver, documented, under the museum's Shia-mapping rule, with the mapping stated — and with a disclosure: the second attestation here is structured, not textual, a weaker form than a two-text case. The Persian article's lead calls him a "Shia jurist", a personal textual attestation of "Shia"; the Arabic article's infobox gives his religion as "Shia Muslim". The English text nowhere names Shia of him, the Urdu text calls him a Muslim jurist only, and Wikidata carries Islam in general — no Shia value at all. The branch-supporting context is extensive: a jurist formed at the Qom hawza, custodian of the Imam Reza shrine, member and first deputy chairman of the Assembly of Experts, and son-in-law of Mashhad's Friday prayer leader. If both attestations are required to be running text, this record falls to unknown with the evidence preserved here. ^{2 3 1 4}

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