Raisi, Ebrahim
President (2021–present).
As president, Raisi chairs the Supreme National Security Council. As the Critical Threats Project notes, "The SNSC is the highest defense and foreign policy body within the regime.. The council, under Khamenei, also dictates and oversees all efforts to quash protests."1
As first deputy chief justice in 2009, he personally “was involved in the regime’s brutal crackdown” on the Green Movement protests, the U.S. government said.2
Later, Raisi served as chief justice (2019–2021) and a standing member of the SNSC when it coordinated the organized brutality against Iranian citizens during the 2019 gas protests. And now he is signaling that the regime will violently suppress the ongoing marches, saying Iran must “deal decisively with those who oppose the country’s security and tranquility.”3
He has also dramatically increased enforcement of hijab laws, including by issuing a new "Hijab and Chastity" decree to enforce Iran's "Hijab and Chastity" law; increasing Morality Police patrols (and resulting arrests and beatings, including that resulting in the death of Mahsa Amini), prohibiting unveiled women from entering government offices and banks and using public transit, and increasing advertising about the hijab requirements.4
Sources:
2. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm824
3. https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-toll-hijab-protests/32049208.html
4. https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-women-dress-restrictions-raisi/31989759.html; https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-president-orders-enforcement-hijab-chastity-law/31933583.html; https://www.iranintl.com/en/202207065340