Prime Minister Imran Khan felicitates Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi on winning 2021 Iranian Presidential Elections.
PM Imran Khan took to social media to congratulate Ebrahim Raisi in winning 13th Presidential Elections in Iran.
Congratulations to Excellency brother Ibrahim Raisi on his landmark victory in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s 13th Presidential elections, tweeted PM Imran Khan.
PM Imran Khan highlighted that he looks forward to working with him for further strengthening of our fraternal ties and for regional peace, progress and prosperity.
The development comes as Ebrahim Raisi – a hardline conservative candidate succeeded in securing 62% of the total votes in Iranian Presidential Elections.
With 90% of the total votes counted in Iran’s Presidential Elections, Ebrahim Raisi has secured 17.8 million votes and is ahead of his nearest rival by a seemingly unsurmountable margin of 14.5 million votes.
The three main rivals contesting in Iranian Presidential Elections against Ebrahim Raisi namely Mohsen Rezai, Amirhossein Qazizadeh Hashem and Abdolnasser Hemmati have conceded their defeat and congratulated him on his victory as reflected in preliminary results so far.
The 2021 Presidential Elections in Iran have been marred by extremely low turnout of around 28.6 people casting their votes as compared 41 million in the previous elections back in 2017.
Ebrahim Raisi will become Iran’s eight President, replacing Hassan Rouhani who was first elected to the post back in 2013 and was elected for a second term as well in 2017.
Sayyid Ebrahim Raisol-Sadati, popularly known as Ebrahim Raisi is a 60-year-old ultra conservative Iranian jurist and principlist politician.
The Iranian President-elect is under US sanctions and is considered extremely loyal to Iran’s clergy and country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
During his election campaign, Raisi promised to ease unemployment and work to remove US sanctions that have contributed to economic hardship for ordinary Iranians and caused widespread discontent.
