A panel under Iran's supreme leader's watch disqualified several of Raisi's moderate challengers ahead of the election.
Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line conservative judge under U.S. sanctions, easily won Iran's presidential election on Saturday amid record-low voter turnout.
With about 90 percent of the votes counted, Raisi had received 17.8 million of the 28.6 million ballots cast. Raisi's political rivals, former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei and moderate Abdolnasser Hemmati received about 3.3 million and 2.4 million votes respectively,Comparatively, some 41 million Iranians cast ballots in the previous 2017 presidential election. Incumbent President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate, received well over 23 million votes after those results were tallied.
Many Iranians saw Raisi as being hand-picked or coronated by the Persian Gulf nation's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A panel under the supreme leader's watch disqualified several of Raisi's moderate challengers. Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative cleric and judge, won Iran's presidential election on Saturday. In this photo, Raisi gives a news conference after voting in the presidential election, at a polling station in the capital Tehran, on June 18."The winner of yesterday's elections is the Iranian nation. They have again stood up to the propaganda of the enemy's mercenary media and the urgings of the simple-minded and the ill-wishers.
The new Iranian president-elect will be the nation's first head of government to already be under U.S. sanctions when taking office, according to the Associated Press. Raisi was sanctioned for his involvement in the mass execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s. Additionally, he was sanctioned in his role as chief justice of Iran.
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