New York Times (blog) | Interior minister declares reformist-backed Rowhani winner in Iran ... Fox News While Iran's presidential elections offer a window into the political pecking orders and security grip inside the country -- particularly since the chaos from a disputed outcome in 2009 -- they lack the drama of truly high stakes as the country's ... Iran Moderate Wins Presidency by a Large Margin Iran's next president called 'diplomat sheik' by supporters White House says US respects Iran election results, but censorship ... |
Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani wins Iran's presidential vote Washington Post TEHRAN — Hassan Rouhani, a moderate Shiite cleric known as one of Iran's leading foreign policy experts, has won the election to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the Islamic Republic's next president, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar ... |
Iran's polls close in presidential election USA TODAY TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Reform-minded Iranians who have faced years of crackdowns looked Friday to claw back a bit of ground in a presidential election that gave them an unexpected hero and a chance to upend a vote that once appeared solidly in the ... |
Moderate Rohani wins Iran presidential election in landslide Chicago Tribune The outcome will not soon transform Iran's long tense relations with the West, resolve an international crisis over its pursuit of nuclear power or lessen its support of Syria's president in the civil war there - matters of national security that ... |
Iran Reformists Dance in Streets for New President ABC News Wild celebrations broke out on Tehran streets that were battlefields four years ago as reformist-backed Hasan Rowhani capped a stunning surge to claim Iran's presidency on Saturday, throwing open the political order after relentless crackdowns by ... |
Iran: Moderate candidate wins presidential vote USA TODAY TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's interior minister says moderate candidate Hasan Rowhani has won the presidential vote. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said at a press conference Saturday in Tehran that Rowhani obtained more than 50 percent of more than 36 ... |
ABC News | Key Questions on Iran's Presidential Election ABC News Some questions about Iran's presidential election and beyond: DOES THE ELECTION MATTER? Yes, but not in the ways many people think. Iran's president does not set the country's major policies such as the nuclear program, relations with the West or ... |
Wall Street Journal | Moderate Candidate Wins Iran's Presidential Vote Wall Street Journal ... giving a decisive victory to Iranians calling for change. Iran's interior minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, said at a press conference Saturday in Tehran that Mr. Rohani had obtained more than 50% of more than 36 million votes cast in Friday's ... |
Moderate candidate Hasan Rowhani wins Iran's presidential vote: minister New York Daily News TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's interior minister says moderate candidate Hasan Rowhani has won the presidential vote, handing a victory to the cleric who gained support of many reform-minded Iranians looking to claw back a bit of ground after years of crackdowns. |
Hassan Rohani is Iran's next president. What will change? Christian Science Monitor Rohani built his campaign around promises to ease Iran's tensions with the West, end international sanctions, allow greater freedom of the press and reduce government interference in private lives. Ahead of the vote many said that Rohani's candidacy ... |