Mahmud Ahmadinejad 52 , by getting a majority of the votes, has become the definite winner of the 10th presidential election. Supporters of ...
Mahmud Ahmadinejad 52, by getting a majority of the votes, has become the definite winner of the 10th presidential election.Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad celebrate in Tehran after preliminary results.However Mir Hossein Mousavi also declared himself the victor.
"Of 39,165,191 votes counted (85 percent), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election with 24,527,516 (62.63 percent)," Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli told reporters on Saturday.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi came in second with 13,216,411 votes (33.75 percent), he added.
The two were followed by Mohsen Rezaei with 678,240 votes (1.73 percent) and Mehdi Karroubi with 333,635 votes (0.85 percent), the minister said.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that Iranians should celebrate their 80% turnout and their strong vote of confidence to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Friday presidential election.
Ayatollah Khamenei also called on the supporters of President Ahmadinejad and those of other candidates to "avoid any provocative behavior and word and suspicion" for the person elected as president in the Friday election is now the president of the entire Iranian nation, "and all people, including Ahmadinejad's yesterday rivals, should now stand united in supporting him".
The remarks by the Leader came after the incumbent President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won a second 4-year term in office in the presidential election yesterday.
Ahmadinejad called on the public to respect the vote and attacked the foreign media's coverage.
"All political and propaganda machines abroad and sections inside the country have been mobilized against the nation," he said in a televised addresss. "They have launched the heaviest propaganda and psychological war against the Iranian nation. Many global networks continuously worked, employing very complicated methods, that work against our nation and arranged a full-fledged battle against us."
Without mentioning the unrest on the streets, Ahmadinejad proclaimed that a new era has begun in the history of the Iranian nation.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei 's text message is as follows.
According to the Ministry, from a number of 28,909,689 ballots counted so far, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has collected 18,787,766 votes (64.98%), while his closest rival Mir Hossein Mousavi has won 9,269,998 votes (32.06%).
Mahmud Ahmadinejad won 65 percent of the vote against more than 32 percent for war-time premier Mousavi, with almost 90 percent of ballot boxes counted .Ahmadinejad's campaign manager Mojtaba Samareh Hachemi dismissed the rival camp's claim of victory, insisting the incumbent remained "the president of all Iranians."Mir-Hossein Mousavi came in second with 13,216,411 votes (33.75 percent), he added.
The two were followed by Mohsen Rezaei with 678,240 votes (1.73 percent) and Mehdi Karroubi with 333,635 votes (0.85 percent), the minister said.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that Iranians should celebrate their 80% turnout and their strong vote of confidence to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Friday presidential election.Ayatollah Khamenei also called on the supporters of President Ahmadinejad and those of other candidates to "avoid any provocative behavior and word and suspicion" for the person elected as president in the Friday election is now the president of the entire Iranian nation, "and all people, including Ahmadinejad's yesterday rivals, should now stand united in supporting him".
The remarks by the Leader came after the incumbent President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won a second 4-year term in office in the presidential election yesterday.
Ahmadinejad called on the public to respect the vote and attacked the foreign media's coverage.
"All political and propaganda machines abroad and sections inside the country have been mobilized against the nation," he said in a televised addresss. "They have launched the heaviest propaganda and psychological war against the Iranian nation. Many global networks continuously worked, employing very complicated methods, that work against our nation and arranged a full-fledged battle against us."
Without mentioning the unrest on the streets, Ahmadinejad proclaimed that a new era has begun in the history of the Iranian nation.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei 's text message is as follows.
