Iranian president seems headed for easy reelection

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Iranian President Ali Khamenei was headed for a landslide reelection Saturday with about 88% of the vote in the fourth presidential election since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamic


revolution, Tehran radio reported. Khamenei had received almost 9 million of the 10 million votes counted by 7 p.m., the radio said. Of the two challengers, Mostafavi Kashani, an attorney,


received 874,517 votes and Commerce Minister Habibollah Asghar-Owladi had 195,084 votes, said the broadcast, monitored in Athens. Khamenei, 43, leads the ruling Islamic Republican Party.


Diplomats in Tehran had predicted an easy victory over his two lesser-known challengers. MORE TO READ