FILE - Ebrahim Raisi, then a candidate in Iran's presidential elections, waves to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, June 18, 2021. Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country's supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel, has died in a helicopter crash, according to state media on Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) FILE PHOTO
