Tehran governor told ISNA that more than 60% of eligible voters in Tehran cast their ballot. Issa Farhadi added that 50 percent of Tehran’s vote has been counted.
Reading between numbers: Hamid Aboutalebi Deputy Chief of Staff for Political Affairs at Presidential office tweets numbers indicating incumbent President Rouhani recieved 62% of the 42 million votes.He concluded that Hassan Rouhani will be president for another 4 years (the year 1400 in Iranian Calendar)
5 hours after the polling stations closed, According to state media from Interior Ministry, there is still no official result ready to be announced.
Alireza Jafarzadeh Deputy Director at US representative office of National Council of Resistance of Iran wrote in a piece for FoxNews: “ Presidential elections in Iran have less to do with the opinions of the Iranian population, and more to do with the warfare between the various gangs, each with its own political turf, economic conglomerates, and corruption networks that dominate most of the nation’s GDP”.