INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
expected to become interim president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.* As interim president, Mokhber is part of a
three-person council, along with the speaker of parliament and the head of the judiciary, that will organise a new presidential election
1, 1955, Mokhber, like Raisi, is seen as close to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has the last say in all matters of state
Mokhber became first vice president in 2021 when Raisi was elected president.* Mokhber was part of a team of Iranian officials who visited
Mokhber had previously been head of Setad, an investment fund linked to the supreme leader.* In 2010, the European Union included Mokhber on
Two years later, it removed him from the list.* In 2013, the U.S
Treasury Department added Setad and 37 companies it oversaw to a list of sanctioned entities.* Setad, whose full name is Setad Ejraiye
Farmane Hazrate Emam, or the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, was set up under an order issued by the founder of the
It ordered aides to sell and manage properties supposedly abandoned in the chaotic years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and channel the
bulk of the proceeds to charity.Source: Reuters--Agencies
