Here are some key info about Mohammad Mokhber, 68, Iran’s first vp who, based mostly on the nation’s structure, is anticipated to turn out to be interim president following the demise of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
* As interim president, Mokhber is a part of a three-person council, together with the speaker of parliament and the pinnacle of the judiciary, that may set up a brand new presidential election inside 50 days of the president’s demise.
* Born on Sept. 1, 1955, Mokhber, like Raisi, is seen as near Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all issues of state. Mokhber grew to become first vp in 2021 when Raisi was elected president.
* Mokhber was a part of a crew of Iranian officers who visited Moscow in October and agreed to provide surface-to-surface missiles and extra drones to Russia’s army, sources instructed Reuters on the time. The crew additionally included two senior officers from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council.
* Mokhber had beforehand been head of Setad, an funding fund linked to the supreme chief.
* In 2010, the European Union included Mokhber on an inventory of people and entities it was sanctioning for alleged involvement in “nuclear or ballistic missile activities”. Two years later, it eliminated him from the listing.
* In 2013, the US Treasury Department added Setad and 37 corporations it oversaw to an inventory of sanctioned entities.
* Setad, whose full title is Setad Ejraiye Farmane Hazrate Emam, or the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, was arrange beneath an order issued by the founding father of the Islamic Republic, Khamenei’s predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It ordered aides to promote and handle properties supposedly deserted within the chaotic years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and channel the majority of the proceeds to charity.
—Reuters
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