29 May, 2017
Rouhani said the election result shows that Iran wants to push ahead with reforms and continue interaction with the worldwide community, Reuters reported. "I will remain loyal to my promises to you", he wrote.
He said after over 41 million votes counted, Rouhani stood in the first place with 57.13 percent of the ballots by garnering over 23 million votes.
Foad Izadi maintains that the high voter turnout in a country which is located in a region beset with prolonged war and instability carries this important message for foreign governments that despite all the problems and deficiencies, the Iranian people do not want any foreign interference in their domestic affairs.
A supporter of President Hassan Rouhani carries his poster during a rally in Teheran on Wednesday. But he did not congratulate Mr Rouhani for his victory.
In his victory speech, Rouhani continued to sound his defiant note, saying the nation had chosen "the path of interaction with the world, away from violence and extremism". She said she spent more than three hours outside waiting to vote, "but it was worth it". The two figures, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, both endorsed Raisi, as did Mohammad Khatami, another reformist who served as Iran's president from 1997 to 2005.
President Rouhani will now have a bigger mandate to push through his reforms, to put an end to extremism, to build bridges with the outside world, to put the economy back on track.He has now contributed to that pressure himself by campaigning hard as a reformist, particularly in the final days. Now, with his re-election, Iran is on the path towards change, with a renewed confidence drawn from the emphatic result. The hardliners are not done yet. In recent years, the authoritarian theocrat has allowed satellite television to spread through Tehran, bringing foreign news and entertainment into Iranians' living rooms. But as Rohani knows very well, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds ultimate political, military, and religious power in Iran, and can easily derail a campaign or thwart the plans of a president.
The council, as the high legislative body of the country, will ultimately confirm the results of Iran's presidential election.
Mr Rouhani has promised to build bridges with the outside world.
His reelection served as a stamp of approval for the 2015 nuclear agreement that Iran signed with six world powers under which Tehran has curbed its uranium enrichment in exchange for an easing of global economic sanctions.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly described it as "one of the worst deals ever signed".
"At the moment, we know that the U.S. President Donald Trump wants to get rid of it, but he can not", because Rouhani's adminstration has not violated the deal and Iran has done all its obligations, the expert said.
Rouhani has slowly expanded social freedoms since taking office in 2013, and actively courted the support of young, urban and female voters.
