He, like scores of very young seminary students, was brought in by Ayatollah Beheshti to be trained as regime cadres. He was neither a brilliant law student nor experienced in prosecution, but he was willing to get the work done. Those days, eliminating dissidents and spreading terror among Iranians was a priority and young Raisi was assigned to the task. This promotion and the candidacy of a mass killer as president send a chilling message to the Iranian people. A President Raisi, with his understanding of “threats,” will have no qualms about joining forces with the judiciary and the revolutionary guards to kill.

Source: Huffington Post April 16, 2017 15:56 UTC