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Iranian Hard-Liner Ebrahim Raisi Wins Presidential Vote Iran’s ultraconservative judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, has been elected president after a vote that many Iranians skipped, seeing it as rigged in his favor. The Interior Ministry announced the final results on Saturday, saying Mr. Raisi had won with nearly 18 million of 28.9 million ballots cast in the voting a day earlier. Turnout was 48.8 percent — a significant decline from the last presidential election, in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/world/middleeast/iran-election-president-raisi.html