Hardline Judge Raisi Wins Iran’s Presidential Election

Judge Ebrahim Raisi has officially won Iran’s presidential elections in a vote that appeared to see the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history, Iranian state media reported on Saturday.

28 million Iranians cast their vote Friday, just over half of the country’s 59 million eligible voters.

Raisi won 17.8 million votes, Iranian state media reported. In initial results, former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei won 3.3 million votes and moderate Abdolnasser Hemmati got 2.4 million, said Jamal Orf, the head of Iran’s Interior Ministry election headquarters. The race’s fourth candidate, Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, had around 1 million votes, Orf said.
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