Conservative judge Ebrahim Raisi has been declared the victor of Iran’s presidential election. As the clear front-runner, Raisi received congratulations from rival candidates hours before preliminary results were announced.
Iran’s Interior Ministry announced the final results on Saturday, showing that Raisi had won in a landslide victory. The ministry said 28.9 million Iranians participated in the election.
Raisi received over 17.9 million votes, with the rest split between three other candidates. Second-place Mohsen Rezaei received 3.4 million votes.
In an address to the country, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the winner of the election was the “Iranian nation” and that participation at the polls marked a victory against propaganda of the enemy’s mercenary media.
Raisi’s three rival candidates conceded ahead of the release of the preliminary results. Outgoing President Hassan Rouhani met with Raisi on Saturday to personally congratulate his successor.
The Muslim cleric campaigned on the slogan “Popular Administration, Strong Iran” and promised to tackle government corruption. Raisi’s platform also called for measures to combat poverty, create jobs and rein in inflation.
A close ally of Khamenei, Raisi could further complicate strained relations between Tehran and Washington during his four-year term.
The current chief justice of Iran was targeted by US sanctions in 2019, due to his alleged involvement in the execution of political prisoners in the 1980’s, as well as crackdowns on civil unrest in the late 2000’s.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2021.
Iran doesn’t need the US and EU. It needs to focus on its relations with the East, evade sanctions, and do what it can to improve things internally for its own good, not for the good of some western institution that is cheating it.
That is the plan, avoid the Zionist system?
I agree with your assessment with one additional point. I think Iran should forget about sanctions relief from America. American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has already said more than once that even if there is an agreement with IRAN on JCPOA, sanctions will remain.
Therefore, Iran should focus on other means to strength its economy by forging relations with friendly countries and self-reliance. It should ignore America as much as possible.
Sanction remain because the USA is bankrupt and they need to keep the confiscated money of Libya, Venezuela and Iran?