Official mourning has begun in Iran for President Ebrahim Raisi – possibly the most hardline of all Iran’s presidents since 1979. He had been handpicked by the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and was seen as his most likely successor.
Though he had been involved in the most crucial episodes of Iran’s recent politics, external and internal, his death and that of the equally hardline foreign minister Hassan Amir-Abdollahian won’t change much for most Iranians.
