Ebrahim Raisi, who died on Sunday in a helicopter crash, worked in Iran’s judiciary for over three decades before becoming president in August 2021. The 63-year-old wielded considerable influence within the Islamic Republic’s establishment and, analysts say, had a close relationship with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the most powerful man in the country. Born in 1960 in Mashhad, in north-east Iran, Raisi won the presidential election in June 2021 with just under 62% of the vote as the leading candidate of the political hardliners and the preferred candidate and protégé of Khame…