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Amnesty International released a statement saying that Iran’s newly elected leader Ebrahim Raisi is involved in crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and forced disappearances. Ebrahim Raisi is an ultraconservative who was recently declared the winner of the Islamic republic’s presidential elections. However, officials say that he should be investigated for alleged crimes against humanity first. Raisi is set to take over from moderate Hassan Rouhani in August and his loyal supporters argue that the former head of the judiciary is Iran’s best hope for standing up to the West and bringing relief from a deep economic crisis exacerbated by coronavirus disease and the US sanctions. The Amnesty report clarifies that Raisi’s name is associated with the mass executions of Marxists and other leftists in 1988 when he was deputy prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Amnesty International’s secretary-general Agnès Callamard said in a statement that the 60-year-old Iranian l...