Iranian President Seems Headed for Easy Reelection
Iranian President Ali Khamenei was headed for a landslide reelection Saturday with about 88% of the vote in the fourth presidential election since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution, Tehran radio reported.
Khamenei had received almost 9 million of the 10 million votes counted by 7 p.m., the radio said.
Of the two challengers, Mostafavi Kashani, an attorney, received 874,517 votes and Commerce Minister Habibollah Asghar-Owladi had 195,084 votes, said the broadcast, monitored in Athens.
Khamenei, 43, leads the ruling Islamic Republican Party. Diplomats in Tehran had predicted an easy victory over his two lesser-known challengers.
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