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Iranian President Wins Re-election
Iranian President Wins Re-election
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has been re-elected in the eighth presidential election held on Friday, an informed source of the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Khatami has won 21 million votes out of the total 28 million tallied, sweeping past the majority mark, the official IRNA news agency quoted the source as saying.
Some 35 million of the eligible voters, or 83 percent, turned out in the voting, Tehran Radio reported.
Khatami, 57, a mild-mannered cleric, won the last election in 1997 with a 70 percent of the votes.
The Interior Ministry said earlier that Khatami's conservative rival, former Labor Minister Ahmad Tavakoli, stood second with a margin of about 15 percent of the votes tallied behind Khatami,
followed by other eight contenders, who received between 1 and 2 percent of the counted votes.
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