Iran: Hassan Rouhani wins landslide in huge victory for reformists

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has won re-election with a landslide victory, in a ringing endorsement of his efforts to re-engage with the West and offer greater freedoms at home.

With a huge turnout, polling stations stayed open until midnight in parts of the country, defying worries that moderates disillusioned by the weak economy or slow pace of change would not vote.

Iran’s interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, announced live on state television that Rouhani received 23,549,616 votes (57%), compared to Raisi 15,786,449 votes, or 38.5 percent.
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“Hope prevailed over isolation,” former president and key Rouhani ally Mohammad Khatami posted on Instagram, along with a photo of Rouhani making a victory sign, Reuters reported. Iran’s state television congratulated Rouhani on re-election.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/20/iran-hassan-rouhani-set-for-landslide-in-huge-victory-for-reformists

[Alice11111]

1. Polls open until midnight to encourage voting...help us

W our elections. The Repubs think their contribution to an election is voter suppression.
We need to be monitored and have a quiet period before the vote...no Comey type interference.
I still hope he spends a year in jail...partly. the deterrent effect.

[brooklynite]

4. I don't know about your State, but in NY the polls are open 15 hours.

[Danascot]

2. It would be

hilarious if Hassan Rouhani's inauguration crowd were larger than Trump's and that fact was pointed out to him.

[yallerdawg]

3. Affirmation that the Iranian people support peace!

Let's hope the jackass on tour over there doesn't wreck it all.

[modrepub]

5. No peace between Shia (Iran) and Sunni (Saudi Arabia)

and Iraq is about evenly split between Shia, Sunni and Kurd. I doubt Trump knows the difference between the two anyway.

[roamer65]

7. Add to that the difference between Arab Shia and Persian Shia.

Iraq is primarily Arab Shia, along with Iran's oil rich Khuzestan province. The Eastern province that contains the Ghawar oil fields in the KSA is pre-dominately Arab Shia as well.

A recipe for war given current trends.

[rogue emissary]

6. Surprised this isn't getting more attention.

They had what is becoming a traditional election between a moderate establishment candidate and a populist extremist outsider. Thought the MSM we'd be all over this election like France and the Britain leaving the EU. It's good to see people are fighting back against the rise of nationalism and right extremism.