Born in 1960, Ebrahim Raisi trained from his earliest age to become an Islamic cleric, rising through the ranks to become one of Iran’s top moral prosecutors. Elected as president of Iran in 2019, the ayatollah bestowed upon Raisi the honorific title “hojat-ol-eslam,” which means “Authority on Islam.”

Raisi, whom Middle East experts widely agree will be the next ayatollah, sat on a “death committee” in 1988 that ordered the execution of thousands of political prisoners.

In 2019, Raisi, as head of Iran’s judiciary, played a role in a brutal crackdown that killed 1,500 Iranian protesters. But Joe Biden is about to let Iran’s president visit New York City—which Iran threatens to turn into “ruins and hell”—so Raisi can attend a United Nations gathering in September.

And that’s not all. Biden is about to ink a deal with Iran at the same time Iran is trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.

But there’s more. When an Iran-linked assassin stormed the stage and stabbed author Salman Rushdie—a man Iran’s supreme leader sentenced to death for writing The Satanic Verses—Biden took a full day to issue a statement that made no mention of the Iranian regime’s fatwa demanding Rushdie’s death.

In addition, Iran has targeted Iranian dissidents on our soil for death or kidnapping. And we think we can make a deal with this enemy?

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