Hardliner Ebrahim President announces new Iranian President | Middle East News
Conservative court chief Ebrahim Raisi will take over the presidency in early August, replacing President Hassan Rouhani.
Tehran, Iran – Conservative Justice Minister Ebrahim Raisi has been elected as the eighth President of Iran, the interior ministry has announced.
The ministry confirmed on Saturday that the President had won 61.95% of the vote in a 48.8% vote – the lowest in a presidential election since 1979. President received 28,933,004 votes.
Of the 3,726,870 votes cast, the incumbent vote finished second in the race, and the first since the founding of the Islamic Republic.
Former Revolutionary Guard leader Mohsen Rezaei finished third in Friday’s election with 3,412,712 votes and was followed by a candidate Abdolnasswer Hemmati with 2,427,201 votes, and Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi with 999,718 votes.
“We have not had any irregularities in the election process,” Foreign Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli told a news conference.
Rezaei, Hemmath and Hashem he agreed ahead announcing Saturday.
The president will take over the presidency in early August, replacing President Hassan Rouhani, who has been barred by law from running for office for the third time in a row.
“I commend the people for their decision,” Rouhani said on Saturday.
The President’s decision shows a combination of power and a strong and stable camp, which already oversees parliament and can occupy local courts.
The Muslim scholar, who wears a black turban signifying that he is a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, is also seen as the next leader of the country.
The president has become Iran’s first president to be banned by the United States even before taking office as elected in 2019.
The U.S. people recruited him to take part in the 1988 political genocide, to take part in the protests at the Green Movement in 2009, and to “oversee the execution of young people during their trial”.
The president grew up in the northeastern city of Mashhad, an important Shia religious place where Imam Reza, the eighth Shia leader, was installed.
He attended a seminary in Qom and was trained by some Iranian Muslim scholars, including the Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei.
After serving as state attorney in a number of cases, the President relocated to the capital, Tehran, in 1985 after he was appointed as a judge.
After raising the threshold, in March 2016 he was appointed by the archbishop to oversee Astan-e Quds Razavi, the famous temple of Imam Reza, where he oversees billions of objects.
He stood unopposed for the presidency against Rouhani in 2017, receiving 38% of the vote.
‘Against Corruption’
The president was pledged to boost Iran’s economy which is suffering from US sanctions as well as the coronavirus epidemic that exacerbated the economic crisis caused by the country’s poor governance.
Although Iran has long opposed the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, the President said in a Presidential debate earlier this month to keep the commitment agreement like any other government.
He said, however, that they had formed a “strong” government to lead the coalition in the right direction.
