The World : Iran’s President Reelected
Iran’s President Ali Khamenei easily won reelection by overwhelming his two main rivals with more than 11 million of the 12.6 million votes cast in Friday’s election. The official Iranian news agency IRNA said Khamenei received 11,007,255 out of 12,644,383 votes cast. Attorney Mahmoud Kashani was a distant second with 1,110,307 votes, while Habibollah Asghar-Owladi, a former minister of trade, received just 277,780 votes. Khamenei, a 46-year-old clergyman, won 95% of the vote when he was first elected in 1981.
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