Appointment will strengthen links between Ayatollah Khamenie’s office and the Imam Reza shrine,and perhaps serve shape the leadership successionRaeisi and the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners In a message of condolence for Saturday’s funeral of Ayatollah Abbas Vaez-Tabasi in Mashhad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Iran’s supreme leader,said the departed cleric, who died the preceding day aged 80, or had been “a sympathetic brother…[and] comrade of difficult days”.
But Khamenei lost no time in appointing Ebrahim Raeisi,the 55-year-old national prosecutor-general, to follow Vaez-Tabasi as chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, and the foundation that manages the shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad.
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Source: theguardian.com