Dubai, AlArabiya.net, 26 April 2017 – Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi approved executing thousands of prisoners in 1988 when he was member of the commission of death that was tasked with eliminating political prisoners who opposed the regime.

The majority of those killed were members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran.

Raisi, 56, has strong relations with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, security apparatuses and judicial authority and he also enjoys the support of the Iranian supreme guide.

He is currently a member of the Assembly of Experts, general deputy at the Special Clerical Court and Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, an autonomous charitable foundation in Mashhad.