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May 21st, 2017 
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nsnbc : President Hassan Rouhani has won the country’s presidential elections over his main rivals Ebrahim Raisi, Mustafa Hashmi Taba and Mustafa Mir Salim. Rouhani vowed he would continue opening the country’s foreign policy.
Rouhani won comfortably with 57 percent or 23,549,616, followed by his nearest rival Ebrahim Raisi who won 15,786,449 votes. Taba and Mustafa won 215,450 and 478,215 votes, respectively.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday after the electoral college had announced the results, Rouhani said Iran is open to continue and extend its policy of openness towards the world. Rouhani said the message that saw him winning most votes was that he chooses peace and friendship over violence and extremism.
He said that Iranian people have spoken and have chosen union over polarization, and that everyone has to respect the verdict. Rouhani claimed the vote was against those who were calling for the isolation of the country from the world stage. “You said no to those who were calling to go backward or stop us,” he said.
Rouhani thanked the Iranian people who, according to him, chose him to continue his mission in his second term in office, leaving him with a “heavy burden” that he said needs the help from all the people, friends and foe, to carry.
He said that the people of Iran have spoken and chosen the path the government should take for the next four years. “[Iran] Is prepared to extend its relations with the world based on mutual respect and own national interest,” Rouhani said in a message to the outside world meant to invite more investment and stronger relations with foreign countries in light of the nuclear deal his government signed with the western countries that lifted crippling sanctions in return for monitoring the country’s nuclear program by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Rouhani warned though that Iran’s relations under his presidency do not accept “intimidation or humiliation,” adding that this is the most important message from the people of Iran to the outside world.
Speaking of domestic affairs, he said that the Kurds, Turkmens and other ethnic and religious components all headed to the polls proving that they are all one “united nation” that go beyond the class, ethnic or geographic differences. “You are one nation, have one state, want one president who can be the president of all people, and serve all people.” Iran is seeing increased armed opposition from Kurds – ironic, considering that Tehran supported Iraq’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) during the Iran – Iraq war – a policy that now backfires.
That said, and not neglecting that all Kurds in Iran feel treated as if they were starts or even equal, Rouhani celebrated the diversity in Iran calling it “the land full of stars”. Rouhani – as one would except in a theocracy – greeted the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei whom he said guided the people to the polls with his “wisdom”. Khamenei has the last say over all key issues, including the nuclear deal, and in the commander-in-chief of all armed forces.
In a message meant to undermine the state media ban on the former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, Rouhani thanked him in name for his support to his government and election campaign, in addition to the late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who died in January, and was a staunch supporter of Rouhani’s “government of prudence and hope.”
F/AL – nsnbc 20.05.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/05/20/rouhani-wins-irans-presidential-election/
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