{"id":10034,"date":"2021-06-20T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T03:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2021-06-20T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T03:39:13","slug":"judiciary-chief-ebrahim-raeisi-elected-irans-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10034","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raeisi elected Iran’s President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TEHRAN, June 19 — Iran’s ultra-conservative judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raeisi, was declared winner of Friday\u2019s presidential election, which saw the lowest turnout in the country\u2019s history, according to Anadolu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raeisi garnered 17.92 million votes in Friday\u2019s polls, defeating his three rivals in a landslide victory, Interior Minister Rehman Fazli announced on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former IRGC chief Mohsen Rezai came second with 3.4 million votes, followed by former top banker Abdol-Nasser Hemmati with 2.4 million and former deputy parliament speaker Ghazizadeh Hashemi with around 1 million votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier in the day, the preliminary vote count showed Raeisi leading with 17.8 million, followed by Rezaei with 3.3 million, Hemmati with 2.4 million and Hashemi with 1 million votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voter turnout, according to the Interior Ministry, was 48.8 percent, beating the previous record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, the lowest turnout in Iran’s post-1979 revolution presidential elections was recorded in 1993 \u2014 50.6 percent \u2014 when Hashemi Rafsanjani defeated his conservative rival Ahmed Tavakkoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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