Early results put Rouhani ahead in Iran poll

[FarCenter]

Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has taken a commanding lead in Iran's presidential election based on early results, according to the country's interior minister.

Rouhani, a former nuclear negotiator, has received more than 46 percent of 861,866 votes counted by 6:00am local time (01:30 GMT), some seven hours after polls closed in Tehran on Friday.


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On those figures, Rouhani is followed by Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf with 126,896 votes.

In third place was Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, with 119,294 votes, followed closely by Mohsen Rezaei, a former head of the elite Revolutionary Guard, with 109,089 votes.

Trailing the field were former Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Velayati with 55,990 votes, and little-known former minister Mohammad Gharazi with 13,431 votes.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/06/201361522643286979.html

[COLGATE4]

1. I'm afraid we're going to see the practical

application of Stalin's voting philosophy: "It's not who votes that counts - it's who counts the votes".