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Iranians celebrate Rouhani’s win, ‘a victory for moderation’
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In Tehran, thousands of jubilant Iranians hit the streets to celebrate their presidential election result. It was described as ‘a victory for moderation’ by the new President Hassan Rouhani.
The result was a resounding triumph for cleric Rouhani and his reform-minded supporters and an emphatic defeat of Iran’s conservative hardliners.
With six candidates in the running, Rouhani won more than 50 percent of the vote.
One Tehran resident said he believed that the support of former Presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami, as well as the withdrawal of reformist Aref from the race, contributed to Rouhani’s decisive victory.
Rouhani takes the helm of an economy battered by international sanctions, the result of Iran’s bitter dispute with the West over its nuclear programme.
On foreign policy, Rouhani has already struck a very different tone to that of outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rouhani spoke of a new chance “in the international arena” for “those who truly respect democracy and cooperation”.
Matters of national security are the domain of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei so are outside the hands of the president.
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Iranians celebrate Rohani’s win, ‘a victory for moderation’
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In Tehran, thousands of jubilant Iranians hit the streets to celebrate their presidential election result. It was described as ‘a victory for moderation’ by the new President Hassan Rohani.
The result was a resounding triumph for cleric Rohani and his reform-minded supporters and an emphatic defeat of Iran’s conservative hardliners.
With six candidates in the running, Rohani won more than 50 percent of the vote.
One Tehran resident said he believed that the support of former Presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami, as well as the withdrawal of reformist Aref from the race, contributed to Rouhani’s decisive victory.
Rohani takes the helm of an economy battered by international sanctions, the result of Iran’s bitter dispute with the West over its nuclear programme.
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It is a stunning electoral victory by any measure; the most moderate of the six candidates in Iran’s presidential election, Hassan Rohani has not just won, he has obliterated his challengers.
He finished with more than 18.5 million votes, some 12 million more than his nearest challenger, the Mayor of Tehran, who could only muster 16.5% of the vote to Rohani’s just-under 51%.
The margin of victory means there will be no potentially divisive second round, and will have been noted by Iran’s clerical elite as a massive expression of the people’s desire for change.
It puts to an end the Ahmedinejad era. The outgoing president’s eight years in power were notable for steadily deteriorating relations with the West, global isolation, and economic stagnation.
While Ahmedinejad became a hero to those in the Arab world who wanted the toughest of lines taken against America and Israel, it seems the Iranians are fed up with fighting the Arab world’s battles and would like something more like normal foreign relations.
Any doubts about the significance of this election are confounded by the high turnout, estimated at over 72%. People were hungry to vote, and hungry for a new direction.
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