'Butcher of Tehran' is inaugurated as president of Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi was inaugurated as the new president of Iran on Tuesday.
56% : Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gives his official seal of approval to Iran's newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi during a ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday
53% : From these beginnings, Raisi rose the ranks of the judiciary before being appointed the deputy prosecutor general of Tehran in 1985.
52% : The outgoing president Hassan Rouhani stands beside the incumbent Ebrahim Raisi during a ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday
52% : Raisi went on to serve as the prosecutor general of Tehran between 1989 and 1994, the first deputy head of the judiciary from 2004 to 2014 and the country's prosecutor general from 2014 to 2016.
51% : 'Following the people's choice, I task the wise, indefatigable, experienced and popular Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Raisi as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran,' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in a decree read out by his chief of staff.
50% : Trump's successor Joe Biden has signalled his readiness to return to the deal and engaged in indirect negotiations with Iran alongside formal talks with the accord's remaining parties - Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.
50% : The United States vowed an 'appropriate response', while Iran warned Monday that it will respond to any 'adventurism'.
46% : The 2015 deal saw Iran accept curbs on its nuclear capabilities in return for an easing of sanctions.
44% : His judicial career started after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 when aged just 20-years-old, he was appointed prosecutor of Karaj - a suburb of Tehran.
44% : Raisi was the deputy prosecutor general of Tehran in 1988 - a year notorious for the execution of thousands of political prisoners over a five month period.
41% : Trump's successor Joe Biden (pictured at a meeting inside the White House on July 30) has signalled his readiness to return to the deal and engaged in indirect negotiations with Iran alongside formal talks with the accord's remaining parties - Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia
40% : In his response, Khamenei acknowledged Iran suffered from 'many shortcomings and problems,' but quickly added: 'The country's capabilities are even more numerous.
39% : The US sanctions have choked Iran and its vital oil exports, and the economy contracted by more than six percent in both 2018 and 2019.
34% : Known as the 'Butcher of Tehran' over accusations he had pregnant women tortured and prisoners thrown off cliffs, Raisi immediately vowed to tackle 'oppressive' US sanctions.
33% : On the foreign front, tensions have escalated after the United States and Britain joined Israel in blaming Tehran for a tanker attack off Oman last Thursday that killed a British security guard and a Romanian crew member.
32% : The 60-year-old's first priority will be to haul Iran out of dire economic straits wrought by the pandemic and swingeing international sanctions over its breaching of the nuclear deal.
29% : The Butcher of Tehran
24% : But then US president Donald Trump withdrew from the accord three years later and ramped up sanctions again, prompting Tehran to pull back from most of its nuclear commitments.

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