Iran's incumbent president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad casts ballot in the presidential election at a polling station
in Tehran June 12, 2009. Iran held presidential election on June 12.
(Xinhua Photo) Photo
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TEHRAN, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Iranian incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won the 10th presidential election with the
majority of votes, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
By getting more than 75 percent
of votes in the rural areas of the
country, Ahmadinejad determinately wins the election, the IRNA said.
The report came just minutes after Iran's reformist
candidate and former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi called himself "definite
winner" in the presidential election.
"According to the information we have received, I am
the definite winner in this presidential election," Mousavi told a news
conference late Friday in Tehran.
Iran closed the polling stations at 22:00 p.m. (1730
GMT), but voters who have already queued up were allowed to cast their ballots.
Polling stations across Iran opened Friday morning
for a closely fought presidential election which pitted Ahmadinejad against
three other candidates.
TEHRAN, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Iranian incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is heading for victory in the 10th presidential
election, according to the information of Iran's Interior Ministry on Saturday.
Ahmadinejad has gained 64.31% of the votes after 94%
of the ballots have been counted, while reformist candidate, former Prime
Minister Mir-Hossein Mousave has gained 32.57%. Full story
TEHRAN, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Iranian incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won the 10th presidential election with the
majority of votes, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
By getting more than 75 percent of votes in the rural
areas of the country, Ahmadinejad determinately wins the election, the IRNA
said. Full story
TEHRAN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Iran's reformist
candidate and former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi on Friday called himself
"definite winner" in the presidential election.
"According to the information we have received, I am
the definite winner in this presidential election," Mousavi told a news
conference late Friday in Tehran. Full story
TEHRAN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Feverish election
campaign and high turnout in Iran's presidential election on Friday picture a
different and new image of the country and the emerging socio-political demands
of its people.
Hundreds of Iranians lined up in long queues since
early Friday morning in and outside the country's polling stations in a closely
contested vote pitting the hardline incumbent president against three other
candidates including a former prime minister who pledges changes to the country.
Full story
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei casts ballot in the presidential election at a polling station in
Tehran June 12, 2009. (Xinhua Photo) Photo
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TEHRAN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Fazel Nikzad, an engineer
in his 30s, waited in a queue at a large polling station in northern Tehran with
his red-covered birth certificate in hand, Iranians' major ID card required to
be presented at the voting for the next president of the Islamic Republic.
"I came here first, and my family will come later to
vote," said Nikzad, who arrived early in order to stand ahead in the queue. Full story
TEHRAN, June 12
(Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday said that the Iranian
nation would create a bright and progressive future, the official IRNA news
agency reported.
"By taking decisive and revolutionary decisions, the
Iranian nation would create a bright and progressive future," Ahmadinejad was
quoted as saying. Full story
TEHRAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Since Iran's Islamic
Revolution in 1979, the upcoming presidential campaigning this year is the most
tense political event that the country has ever experienced.
The conservative and the reformist camps confronted
one another, gearing up rhetorics of accusing each other and making the
atmosphere increasingly tense in the run-up to the voting on Friday. Full story
TEHRAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Iran's influential
cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
over fair presidential elections, the satellite Press TV reported on
Thursday.
Following an open letter to the Supreme Leader on the
need to ensure a fair election by Iran's veteran political figure Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, reports have emerged of a quickly-arranged meeting between the two
on Wednesday afternoon, Press TV said. Full story
JERUSALEM, June 11 (Xinhua) -- It has been a week of
crucial elections for Israel and yet no Israelis have been to the polls. First
there were fears the Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hezbollah would be victorious in
Lebanon -- something that did not come to fruition, and on Friday Iranians are
electing their new president. Full story
TEHRAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- In a letter to Iran's Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran's presidential hopeful Mir-hossein
Mousavi sought for "healthy election," the local satellite Press TV reported on
Thursday.
Mousavi, as the main challenger to the incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, requested the Leader to take measures aimed at
protecting the vote, ensuring a healthy election and also to intervene and
advise all officials to remain impartial in the Friday election, the report
said. Full story
TEHRAN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Two front-runners in the race
for Iran's next presidency -- incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former
Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi -- seemed to have no favorite odds-on as
their close contest entered the last day.
The impending election saw thousands of Iranians
taking to the street in the last rallies on Wednesday to support their
respective candidates who geared up rhetoric of accusing each other in their
final struggle. No campaigns would be allowed from Thursday on, a day before the
election day. Full story
TEHRAN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday that the upcoming presidential elections day
will be a "bigger no" to his rivals, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"With God's grace, the nation will say a bigger no to
the enemies (some rivals), thus throwing them to the abyss of history,"
Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. Full story
TEHRAN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said that he would invite the U.S. President Barack Obama to a
debate at the United Nations if re-elected as Iran's president, the
semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
"I want constructive interaction on justice and
respect and if I remain in the post, I will invite President Obama to a debate
in the venue of the United Nations General Assembly," Ahmadinejad said in an
interview Tuesday. Full story
TEHRAN, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Iran's presidential hopeful
Mir-Hossein Mousavi said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "twists truth" on
economic issues, Iran's satellite Press TV reported Monday.
The fifth presidential debate has seen Mousavi
accusing the incumbent president of lying to the nation on the economic
situation, the report said. Full story
