In a televised cabinet session, Bennett said Raisi’s election was engineered by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel’s ultra hardline Prime Minister Naftali Bennet came down heavily against the President-elect of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday. Bennett said that, with the election of Raisi, it would be a “regime of brutal hangmen” in Iran. Raisi secured more than 60 percent of the votes in Friday’s election. The landslide victory of the ultraconservative cleric was a foregone conclusion as he had the blessings of the supreme leader. The protege of Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been under US sanctions for human rights abuses. Raisi has been accused of being part of a massive judicial mission that facilitated the killing of 3,000 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) resistance movement following the end of the war with Iraq.
