{"id":84830,"date":"2017-05-20T06:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T06:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/rouhani-wins-second-term-as-president-of-iran\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T06:15:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T06:15:20","slug":"rouhani-wins-second-term-as-president-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/rouhani-wins-second-term-as-president-of-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouhani wins second term as President of Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TEHRAN (SW): Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has won a second term in office, the interior minister announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Out of more than 40 million votes cast, he received 57%, or close to 23m votes in total. According to the BBC, Rouhani, a moderate who agreed a deal with world powers to limit Iran's nuclear program, will thus avoid a second-round run-off. His main challenger has complained about alleged voting irregularities.<\/p>\n

Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric, accused supporters of Rouhani of hundreds of acts of propaganda at voting booths – banned under electoral law.<\/p>\n

State TV congratulated Rouhani on his victory. Interior Minister Abdul Reza Rahmani Fazli said Mr Raisi received 38.5%, or 15.7m votes – not enough to take the election to a second round.<\/p>\n

According to the Washington Post, with 57 percent of the vote, Rouhani’s win appears to be a resounding endorsement of his project to end Iran’s pariah status and rejoin the global economy. The signature achievement of his first term was negotiating a nuclear deal with world powers, which constrains Iran's nuclear program in exchange for major sanctions relief, it added.<\/p>\n

Turnout was more than 70 percent, with around 40 million Iranians casting ballots at polls nationwide, officials said. His challenger, the influential cleric Ebrahim Raisi, secured just 15 million votes — a devastating rebuke of Iran’s conservatives who scoff at the soft power of diplomacy.<\/p>\n

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