Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected with an emphatic victory, official results show.
Out of more than 40 million votes cast, he received 57%, defeating his main rival, a conservative cleric.
Rouhani, a moderate who agreed a deal with world powers to limit Iran’s nuclear program, pledged to “remain true” to his promises. The decisive victory gives him a strong mandate to seek reforms and revive Iran’s ailing economy, analysts say. In his first remarks after winning the poll, Mr Rouhani said on Twitter (in Persian): “Great people of Iran, you’re the winners of the election.”
The president received close to 23 million votes, Interior Minister Abdul Reza Rahmani Fazli said on state television. His main challenger, former prosecutor Ebrahim Raisi received 38.5%, or 15.7 million votes - not enough to take the election to a second round.
He accused supporters of Mr Rouhani of hundreds of acts of propaganda at voting booths - banned under electoral law.