It is austere, a pure very hard.
Ebrahim Raïssi, 60, was inducted this Tuesday president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Elected on June 18, in the first round of a ballot without a real competitor, in fact marked by the strongest abstention since the revolution of 1979 (51.2%), this ultraconservative promised to fight against the economic crisis which plagues the country and the corruption which, according to him, is partly the cause.
Faced with a society that aspires to loosen the religious shackles, the Head of State is committed to defending the individual freedoms of the 85 million inhabitants.
Its opponents in exile hardly believe it: in 1988, Ebrahim Raïssi sat as deputy prosecutor of the revolutionary court of Tehran which condemned to death thousands of political opponents.
It is in this capacity that in 2019 he was placed by Washington on the blacklist of Iranian officials, suspected of "complicity in serious human rights violations".
Strong supporter of "made in Iran"
Assiduous disciple of the theology courses of Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei, who has become close among his relatives, Raïssi has been presented since 2017 as his probable successor: although he is Orthodjatoleslam - rank lower than Ayatollah in the Shiite clergy - the former attorney general of Iran is already part of the conclave that appoints the country's political and religious leader. In the decree enthroning him on Tuesday, Khamenei praised "the wise, tireless, experienced and popular man" who will allow him to continue his conservative policy. “We will seek to lift the tyrannical sanctions” imposed by Washington, replied the new president, “but we will not tie the living conditions of the nation to the will of foreigners”.
In 2018, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal, and reinstated American sanctions.
In response, Tehran has relaunched most of its controversial nuclear activities.
Without the possibility of exporting its oil, the regime has widely used the printing press, dragging the country into a cycle of high inflation and rising prices.
A situation which has only worsened with the Covid-19.
To respond to the crisis, Raïssi has promised to create a million jobs a year, build four million homes during his tenure and severely prosecute all the corrupt who profit from the system.
But the doctrine of "the economy of resistance", the "made in Iran", of which he is a staunch supporter, will probably not be enough.
