{"id":312,"date":"2021-06-21T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T08:32:26","slug":"iran-seyyed-ebrahim-raeisi-wins-irans-2021-presidential-election-by-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/iran-seyyed-ebrahim-raeisi-wins-irans-2021-presidential-election-by-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi wins Iran\u2019s 2021 presidential election by landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>ALGIERS- Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has won Iran\u2019s 2021 presidential election by a landslide, according to preliminary results by the Interior Ministry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALGIERS- Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has won Iran\u2019s 2021 presidential election by a landslide, according to preliminary results by the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Jamal Orf said 28.6 million Iranians participated in the election, and with around 90% of the votes counted, Raeisi garnered over 17.8 million votes, followed by Mohsen Rezaei who secured 3.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nasser Hemmati garnered 2.4 million votes, and Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi won almost one million votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani turned up at the campaign HQ of Raeisi to congratulate him in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raeisi has been the chief of Iran\u2019s Judiciary since 2019. The Muslim cleric has formerly held several other posts in Iran\u2019s judicial branch since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raeisi is associated with the Principlist camp, but he said he ran in the election this year as an independent when he announced his presidential bid last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was campaigning with the slogan \u201cPopular Administration, Strong Iran\u201d on a platform of uprooting corruption in the executive branch, fighting poverty, creating jobs, containing inflation, and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS- Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has won Iran\u2019s 2021 presidential election by a landslide, according to preliminary results by the Interior Ministry. ALGIERS- Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has won Iran\u2019s 2021 presidential election by a landslide, according to preliminary results by the Interior Ministry. Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Jamal Orf said 28.6 million Iranians participated in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algeriainvestmentnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}