The BBC has come under fire as shocked readers have demanded the broadcaster to be “defunded” after an article by the corporation described late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s legacy as “mixed”. Raisi died on Sunday after a helicopter he was in crashed into a hillside in the north-west of the country, near its border with Azerbaijan, but he was known for leading a “torturous regime” and as a result many have “celebrated” his death. He was widely known as the ‘Butcher of Tehran’. On Tuesday, the BBC shared an article reflecting on Raisi’s “mixed legacy in Iran,” which sparked an immediate ba…