Tehran, June 30: Hours after the Guardian Council confirmed the results of the June 12 poll; Lebanese President Michel Suleiman congratulated Iran’s president on his re-election.
Iran’s electoral watchdog late Monday said the recount of 10 percent of the ballot boxes had shown no irregularities.
The recount was done after defeated presidential candidates, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Mohsen Rezaei rejected the result of the election as “fraudulent”.
Speaking via telephone from his office in Beirut, Suleiman told Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that his re-election has “thrilled” the government and people of Lebanon.
Kuwait’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, has also commended Ahmadinejad over his Super Friday win.
The presidential election in Iran turned grim when supporters of the defeated candidates took to the streets, demanding a re-run. The rallies turned violent, resulting in the death of at least 20 people in the country’s capital.
—–Agencies