In Pictures - Who is Ebrahim Raisi?

Raisi grew up in the city of Mashhad, an important religious centre for the Twelver Shiʿah as the burial place of the eighth imam ʿAlī al-Riḍā. Raisi was born at the advent of land reform (1960–63) and the White Revolution development program (1963–79), when Iran was undergoing profound changes in its distribution of power and wealth.