Raisi wins Iran presidential race by landslide

Ebrahim Raisi

Ebrahim Raisi, the incumbent Chief Justice of Iran, has won the country's presidential election by a landslide, according to preliminary results released on Saturday by the Interior Ministry.

Deputy Interior Minister Jamal Orf said 28.6 million Iranians participated in Friday's election, and with around 90 per cent of the votes counted so far, Raisi has garnered over 17.8 million ballots. In the second place was Mohsen Rezaei, a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with 3.3 million ballots.

Although associated with the Principlist camp, Raisi said he ran in the election this year as an independent. He was campaigning with the slogan "Popular Administration, Strong Iran" aimed at uprooting corruption, fighting poverty, creating jobs and containing inflation.

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