Ebrahim Raisolsadati (Raisi) שם רשעים ירקב was known as “the Butcher of Tehran” for his tenure on the government’s prosecutorial committee, in which he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of political prisoners (that’s totalitarian-speak for dissidents). His fundamentalist politics represented the betrayal of the ostensibly liberal student movement which won the Iranian ayatollahs their revolution. Note: That wasn’t the last time Iranian totalitarian fundamentalists would recruit student revolutionary movements to their cause.
May Khomeini and his cronies take note: Death comes to us all and we all face the consequences of our thoughts, words, and actions on that day of judgment. Better to build a better world of which the true prophets taught than to amass worldly power under the banner of hating Israel, a people selected by the Creator to teach the world of the Creator’s involvement in human history, as the prophets of the truth taught. Who knows what went on in the mind of the Butcher of Tehran in the seconds before he died – even the shamelessly wicked can still repent their ways and gain a sliver of some true meaning in existence, if not actual rectification for their crimes.
As for us, the living witnesses of the Creator’s judgement – it’s never too late to reconsider what we think, say, and do.