Tehran, June 13: Iranian incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won the 10th presidential election with the majority of votes, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
By getting more than 75 percent of votes in the rural areas of the country, Ahmadinejad determinately wins the election, the IRNA said.
The report came just minutes after Iran’s reformist candidate and former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi called himself “definite winner” in the presidential election.
“According to the information we have received, I am the definite winner in this presidential election,” Mousavi told a news conference late Friday in Tehran.
Iran closed the polling stations at 22:00 p.m. (1730 GMT), but voters who have already queued up were allowed to cast their ballots.Polling stations across Iran opened Friday morning for a closely fought presidential election which pits Ahmadinejad against three other candidates.
–Agencies