Ebrahim Raisi presidential campaign, 2017

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Ebrahim Raisi presidential campaign, 2017
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Campaign 2017 Presidential Election
Candidate Ebrahim Raisi
Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi
Affiliation Combatant Clergy Association
StatusAnnounced: 6 April 2017 [1]
Registered: 14 April 2017 [2]
Lost the election: 20 May 2017
Headquarters Mashhad, Iran
Key people
Slogan Raisi 2017 slogan.jpg
“Government of Dignity and Work”
دولت کار و کرامت [8]
Change in the interest of the people
تغییر به نفع مردم
ChantEbrahim Iconoclast
Beheshti smell is came
Website
Raisi.org
Raisi-setad.com
Hamyanraisi.ir
Khadem96.ir

Ebrahim Raisi , chairman of Astan Quds Razavi launched his election campaign for 2017 presidential election in April 2017.

Ebrahim Raisi Iranian shia jurist and judge

Sayyid Ebrahim Raisol-Sadati, commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi, is an Iranian politician, Muslim cleric and the current Chief Justice of Iran, being appointed on 7 March 2019. He served in several positions in Iran's Judicial system, such as Attorney General from 2014 to 2016, and Deputy Chief Justice from 2004 to 2014. He was also Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran in the 1980s and 1990s. He was custodian and chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, a wealthy and powerful foundation or bonyad from 2016 until 2019. He is also a member of Assembly of Experts from South Khorasan Province, being elected for the first time in 2006 election. He is the son-in-law of Mashhad Friday prayer leader and Grand Imam of Imam Reza shrine, Ahmad Alamolhoda.

Astan Quds Razavi

Astan Quds Razavi is a Bonyad, or autonomous charitable foundation, in Mashhad, Iran. It is the administrative organization which manages the Imam Reza shrine and various institutions which belong to the organization.

Contents

Early stages

In February 2017, Ebrahim Raisi was said to be backed by the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability and emerging as the conservative camp consensus candidate. [9] A senior member of the front told press that his party tried to “persuade Ebrahim Raisi to run in the elections, but did not succeed”. [10] On 23 February 2017, Raisi won the majority of votes during the meeting held by Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces, a newly established umbrella organization of conservatives. [11]

Front of Islamic Revolution Stability

Front of Islamic Revolution Stability is an Iranian principlist political group described as "extreme end of the fundamentalist camp" and "Iran’s most right-wing party". It was established as an electoral list for the 2012 legislative election. The Front is partly made up of former ministers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi is said to be the "spiritual leader" behind the group.

The Principlists also interchangeably known as the Iranian Conservatives and formerly referred to as the Right or Right-wing, are one of two main political camps inside post-revolutionary Iran, the other being Reformists. The term ‘hardliners’ that some western sources use in the Iranian political context, usually refers to the faction, despite the fact it includes also more centrist tendencies.

Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces islamist party in Iran

The Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces is a political organization in Iran, founded in late 2016 by ten figures from different spectrum of conservative factions.

50 out of the 88 members of the Assembly of Experts, whose names has not been disclosed, have signed a letter supporting Raisi for president in March 2017. [12]

Assembly of Experts

The Assembly of Experts —also translated as the Assembly of Experts of the Leadership or as the Council of Experts— is the deliberative body empowered to designate and dismiss the Supreme Leader of Iran. However all directly-elected members after the vetting process by the Guardian Council still have to be approved by the Supreme Leader of Iran before gaining membership to the Assembly of Experts.

Branding

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Raisi speaking after registration

Raisi's campaign pursues a populist agenda. [13]

It focuses on presenting him as a symbol of Mohammad Beheshti, Iran's chief justice assassinated in 1981. [4] His campaign portrays him as "man of the people"; when Mashhad was hit by an earthquake in early April, he cancelled his meeting in Tehran and said “it is necessary to be with the religious people of this land”. [14]

Mohammad Beheshti Iranian cleric, one of the leading figures of Iranian Revolution

Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti was an Iranian jurist, philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after the revolution. Dr. Beheshti is considered to have been the primary architect of Iran's post-revolution constitution, as well as the administrative structure of the Islamic Republic. Beheshti was assassinated along with more than 70 members of the Islamic Republic Party on 28 June 1981.

Mashhad City in Razavi Khorasan, Iran

Mashhad, also spelled Mashad or Meshad, is the second most populous city in Iran and the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province. It is located in the northeast of the country, near the borders with Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. It has a population of 3,001,184 inhabitants, which includes the areas of Mashhad Taman and Torqabeh. It was a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road connecting with Merv to the east.

Tehran City in Iran

Tehran is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With a population of around 8.694 million in the city and 15 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East. It is ranked 24th in the world by the population of its metropolitan area.

Raisi has publicized pictures of his visits to poverty-stricken areas in remote villages, [15] and opening an apartment complex for the families of Afghan fighters killed in Syrian civil war. [16]

Liwa Fatemiyoun

Liwa Fatemiyoun, literally "Fatimid Banner", also known as Fatemiyoun Division, Fatemiyoun Brigade, or Hezbollah Afghanistan, is an Afghan Shia militia formed in 2014 to fight in Syria on the side of the government. It is funded, trained, and equipped by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and fights under the command of Iranian officers. However, the group has denied direct Iranian government involvement in its activities. By late 2017, the unit numbered between 10,000–20,000 fighters. According to Zohair Mojahed, a cultural official in the group, the group has suffered 2,000 killed and 8,000 wounded in combat in Syria since its establishment.

On 17 April 2017, Raisi wrote an open letter to Hassan Rouhani, recommending him to “observe moral codes”. [17] Raisi's campaign symbol is "National identity card". [18] On 15 May 2017, conservative candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf withdrew his candidacy in favor of Raisi. [19] It is speculation that Ghalibaf will be Raisi's first vice president if he elect. [20] They also joined in a campaign rally in Tehran with each other.

Open letter type of letter

An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally.

Hassan Rouhani 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran

Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician serving as the current and seventh President of Iran since 3 August 2013. He was also a lawyer, academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He has been a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts since 1999, member of the Expediency Council since 1991, and a member of the Supreme National Security Council since 1989. Rouhani was deputy speaker of the fourth and fifth terms of the Parliament of Iran (Majlis) and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In the latter capacity, he was the country's top negotiator with the EU three, UK, France, and Germany, on nuclear technology in Iran, and has also served as a Shi'ite ijtihadi cleric, and economic trade negotiator. He has expressed official support for upholding the rights of ethnic and religious minorities. In 2013, he appointed former industries minister Eshaq Jahangiri as his first vice-president.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Iranian conservative politician, professor, and former air force pilot

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is an Iranian conservative politician and former military officer who held office as the Mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017. Ghalibaf was formerly Iran's Chief of police from 2000 to 2005 and commander of Revolutionary Guards' Air Force from 1997 to 2000.

Media coverage

Iranian moderates and reformists have criticized Iran's state-run television, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), for "excessively reporting" on Raisi. According to Etemaad newspaper, the television has been showing Raisi as the prayer Imam regularly in recent days. Raisi however wrote an open letter to IRIB head Abdulali Ali-Asgari, claiming it has 'biased advertisements' toward Rouhani because of coverage of his speeches as the President of Iran. [21]

Social media activity

In March 2017, a determined campaign began in social media with circulating pictures of mostly young people, including liberal-looking women loosely wearing a hijab , holding pictures with the hashtag #RaisiCome (Persian : #رئیسی_بيا‎). [16] [22]

TV programs [23]

Program title (Channel)TimeFile
Special conversation (IRIB2)26 April 2017, 22:45–23:30
Debate (IRIB1)28 April 2017, 16:00–19:00
With camera (IRIB1)30 April 2017, 22:00–22:45
Documentary (IRIB1)3 May 2017,18:30–19:00
Reply Iranian abroad (JJ1)4 May 2017, 00:30–01:30
Debate (IRIB1)5 May 2017, 16:00–19:00
Special conversation (IRIB2)7 May 2017, 22:45–23:30
Recorded conversation (IRINN)10 May 2017, 21:30–22:00
Debate (IRIB1)12 May 2017, 16:00–19:00
Reply Youths (IRIB3)13 May 2017, 19:10–18:10
Documentary (IRIB1)14 May 2017,22:00–22:30
Reply Iranian abroad (JJ1)15 May 2017, 00:30–01:30
Recorded conversation (IRINN)16 May 2017, 21:30–22:00
Reply Experts (IRIB4)17 May 2017, 18:00–19:00

Political positions

Economics

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Raisi' speech in Tehran

Raisi has said “I see the activation of a resistance economy as the only way to end poverty and deprivation in the country”. [16] He supports development of the agricultural sector, rather than spending money on shopping malls, which “will eventually benefit foreign brands”. [13] Raisi sees economic sanctions as an opportunity. [24]

He has promised to triple the monthly state benefits, currently 450,000 rials per citizen, to tackle corruption and create six million jobs. [25]

Foreign policy

Answering reporters about his foreign policy, he said it “would be to establish ties with every country except Israel”. [15]

Sex segregation

Ebrahim Raisi is one of the supporters of Sex segregation. He said in a 2014 interview that "I think this is a good move because the majority of women do a better job in a totally relaxed atmosphere and fit are required", said about a plan segregation in Tehran Municipality. [26] He is also supporter of Islamization of universities, revision of the Internet and deal with Western culture. [27] [28] [29]

Provincial visits

ProvinceDateRef
South Khorasan 25 April [30]
Yazd 25 April [31]
Qazvin 30 April [32]
Zanjan 30 April [33]
Hormozgan 1 May [34]
Hamedan 2 May [35]
Kermanshah 2 May [36]
Ilam 3 May [37]
Lorestan 3 May [38]
Qom 6 May [39]
Markazi 7 May [40]
Khuzestan 8 May [41]
Sistan and Baluchestan 9 May [42]
Kerman 9 May [43]
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 13 May [44]
Ardabil 13 May [44]
East Azerbaijan 13 May [44]
West Azerbaijan 13 May [44]
Golestan 14 May [45]
Mazandaran 14 May [45]
Gilan 14 May [45]
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 15 May [46]
Fars 15 May [47]
Isfahan 15 May [47]
Bushehr 15 May [48]
Alborz 16 May [49]
Tehran 16 May [50]
North Khorasan 16 May [51]

Endorsements

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Raisi campaign rally in Tehran
Ebrahim Raisi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf at a campaign rally in Tehran, 16 May 2017 Ebrahim Raisi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf at Tehran Mosalla.jpg
Ebrahim Raisi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf at a campaign rally in Tehran, 16 May 2017
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Raisi campaign rally in Qazvin
Raisi campaign rally in Tabriz Ebrahim Raisi rally at Tabriz 02.jpg
Raisi campaign rally in Tabriz

Organizations

Individuals

Assembly of Experts members
MPs
Former ministers
Former vice presidents
Former vice ministers
Judiciary officials
Artists
Athletes
Others

International figures

Israel

  • Avi Perry, former intelligence expert for the Israeli government [72]

United States

Controversy

Raisi's practice of distributing flour among the poor has been criticized and compared to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's similar distribution of potatoes before 2009 presidential election. [74]

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