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Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other senior figures in the Islamic Republic\u2019s 45-year history.
\nWhile government loyalists packed into mosques and squares to pray for Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, both killed in a helicopter crash, most shops remained open and the authorities made little effort to interrupt ordinary life.
\nA year after Raisi\u2019s hardline government cracked down violently to end the biggest anti-establishment demonstrations since the 1979 revolution, opponents even posted furtive video online of people passing out sweets to celebrate his death.
\nLaila, a 21-year-old student in Tehran, told Reuters by phone that she was not saddened by Raisi\u2019s death, \u201cbecause he ordered the crackdown on women for hijab.\u201d
\n\u201cBut I am sad because even with Raisi\u2019s death this regime will not change,\u201d she said.
\nRights groups say hundreds of Iranians died in 2022-2023 demonstrations triggered by the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman arrested by morality police for violating the country\u2019s strict dress codes.
\nThe authorities\u2019 handling of an array of political, social and economic crises have deepened the gap between the clerical rulers and society.
\nSupporters of the clerical establishment spoke admiringly of Raisi, a 63-year-old former hardline jurist elected in a tightly controlled vote in 2021.
\n\u201cHe was a hard working president. His legacy will endure as long as we are alive,\u201d said Mohammad Hossein Zarrabi, 28, a member of the volunteer Basij militia in the holy Shi\u2019ite city of Qom.
\nBut there was little of the emotional rhetoric that accompanied the deaths of publicly revered figures, like Qasem Soleimani, a senior commander of Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards killed by a U.S. missile in 2020 in Iraq, whose funeral drew huge crowds of mourners, weeping with sorrow and rage.
\nFor opponents of Iran\u2019s clerical rulers at home and in exile, Raisi has been a hate figure since the 1980s when he was blamed for playing a leading role as a jurist in the execution of dissidents. Iran has never acknowledged that mass executions took place; amnesty International says 5,000 Iranians, possibly more, were executed in the first decade after the revolution.
\n\u201cI congratulate the families of the victims of the executions,\u201d internet user Soran Mansournia posted in an online forum debating the legacy of Raisi\u2019s death.
\nHowever, Narges, another user, lamented Raisi as having died \u201ca martyr\u2019s death\u201d.
\nMany Iranians said they expected that Raisi\u2019s death would have little impact on how the country would be ruled, with the establishment likely to replace him with another figure with similarly hardline views.
\n\u201cWho cares. One hardliner dies, another takes over and our misery continues,\u201d said Reza, 47, a shopkeeper in the central desert city of Yazd who did not give his full name fearing reprisals.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re too busy with economic and social issues to worry about such news.\u201d
\n(Reuters)
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