Rouhani's Election Win in Iran Chance 'For Trump to Chose Diplomacy Over War'

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Published by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 21/05/2017 - 11:33am

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani easily won his bid for a second term in Friday's election, securing 57 percent of the vote in a victory over his main challenger, the conservative Ebrahim Raisi.

Raisi, who secured 38 percent of the vote, is "one of four judges who sentenced thousands of political prisoners to death in the 1980s, regarded by reformers as a symbol of the security state at its most fearsome," Reuters writes.