Survivor reports

Butcher of Tehran: Who was Iran’s president?

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash.(Bild: AP/Iranian Presidency Office)

Ebrahim Raisi, the President of Iran, is dead. Many Iranians remember the 63-year-old as the "Butcher of Tehran". As the regime's loyal prosecutor, he sent thousands of people to their deaths in the 1980s. A survivor recalls this in an interview with "Krone".

Mahmoud Roayei was in hell. And sometimes has a guilty conscience that he escaped it. In 1981, at the age of 18, Mahmoud was arrested by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. He had been distributing leaflets. Against the Ayatollah. He was sent to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.