{"id":27139,"date":"2017-06-15T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27139"},"modified":"2017-06-15T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:52:28","slug":"presidential-election-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/presidential-election-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who among the following won the presidential election recently held in Iran?<\/strong><br \/>\n(A) Dr. Hassan Rouhani<br \/>\n(B) Ebrahim Raisi<br \/>\n(C) Mustafa Mirsalim<br \/>\n(D) Mustafa Hashmi<br \/>\n<strong>Ans :(a)<br \/>\nRelated facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>According to election results declared by the interior ministry of Iran on May 20, 2017, the incumbent President of Iran, Dr. Hassan Rouhani got a decisive victory over his conservative rival Ebrahim Raisi<\/li>\n<li>President Dr. Hassan Rouhani received 23,636,652 votes in 41,366,085 votes cast in the country. (57.14%)<\/li>\n<li>Elections for Iran\u2019s 12th President were held on May 19, in which about 73% of the people voted.<\/li>\n<li>There were four Presidential candidates in the election however hardliner Ibrahim Raisi (38.28% votes) was seen as the main competitor of Hassan Rouhani.<\/li>\n<li>Significantly, President is elected for four years in Iran and no President can contest elections for the third consecutive term.<\/li>\n<li>According to the provision of Article 117 of the Constitution of Iran, it is mandatory for the candidate to get a minimum of 50% + 1 votes of total votes cast to win the presidential election.<\/li>\n<li>If no candidate gets clear majority, a second round of election is conducted between two candidates with highest vote share in the first round.<\/li>\n<li>In the political system of Iran, the President is the second highest person. The highest person is the highest religious leader.<\/li>\n<li>It is notable that the biggest achievement of Hassan Rouhani\u2019s last four-year term was Iran&#8217;s nuclear deal with Western countries, due to which the restrictions on Iran were lifted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/05\/iran-election-president-hassan-rouhani-takes-lead-170520042625946.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/05\/iran-election-president-hassan-rouhani-takes-lead-170520042625946.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/20\/middleeast\/iran-rouhani-election\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/20\/middleeast\/iran-rouhani-election\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-39984066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-39984066<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who among the following won the presidential election recently held in Iran? (A) Dr. Hassan Rouhani (B) Ebrahim Raisi (C) Mustafa Mirsalim (D) Mustafa Hashmi Ans :(a) Related facts According to election results declared by the interior ministry of Iran on May 20, 2017, the incumbent President of Iran, Dr. Hassan Rouhani got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-27139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}