Iran: President Raisi’s Death Shakes Up List of Contenders for ‘Supreme Leader’
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash this month has prompted two scrambles for power, both for power and for Raisi’s place as a leading candidate to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “supreme leader.”
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