There are rumours in Iran’s corridors of power that Ebrahim Raisi, a former presidential candidate and custodian of the Islamic Republic’s holiest shrine Imam Reza, would replace Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani as head of the country’s judiciary in the summer of 2019. The appointment of Ayatollah Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader in 1989 sped up Raisi’s rise in the …
