{"id":53007,"date":"2021-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=dfbfc1b180914840f0b3c10a6aaeed8b"},"modified":"2021-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T00:00:00","slug":"us-sanctioned-judge-ebrahim-raisi-named-new-iran-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/us-sanctioned-judge-ebrahim-raisi-named-new-iran-president\/","title":{"rendered":"US SANCTIONED JUDGE EBRAHIM RAISI NAMED NEW IRAN PRESIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state TV announced on Saturday that Iranian ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi has officially won the presidential elections.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations poured in for Raisi on Saturday for winning presidential elections even before official results were announced.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s outgoing moderate President Hassan Rouhani said earlier his successor had been elected in the previous day\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate the people on their choice,&#8217; said Rouhani. &#8220;My official congratulations will come later, but we know who got enough votes in this election and who is elected today by the people.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The other two ultraconservative candidates &#8221; Mohsen Rezai and Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi &#8216; explicitly congratulated Raisi.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>congratulate &#8230; Raisi, elected by the nation,&#8221; Ghazizadeh-Hashemi said, quoted by Iranian media.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And Rezai tweeted that he hoped Raisi could build &#8216;a strong and popular government to solve the country\u2019s problems&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The only reformist in the race, former central bank governor Abdolnasser Hemmati, also tweeted his congratulations to Raisi. &#8212; AFP<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: National News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state TV announced on Saturday that Iranian ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi has officially won the presidential elections.Congratulations poured in for Raisi on Saturday for winning presidential elections even before official results wer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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