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Ebrahim Raisi to be Iran’s next president
Ultra-conservative candidate Ebrahim Raisi has won Iran’s recent election by a landslide and will become the country’s next president.
Accused by some of crimes against humanity, the hardline cleric and former top judge was allegedly part of a committee that ordered mass executions of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s.
Mr Raisi has repeatedly denied any involvement in the executions.
In a previous bid to become president, he lost by eight million votes, however, on this occasion, his closest opponent received 14 million fewer votes than Mr Raisi.
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