Iranians again amazed world in recent elections: President Rouhani

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian nation once again amazed the world by their recent massive electoral participation.

President Rouhani made the remark in the capital, Tehran, on Sunday, addressing Iranian and foreign reporters in a presser.

On the election day, the Iranians once again “showed their trust in their establishment, their leadership, and their administration and went to the polls and once again amazed the world,” President Rouhani said.

Iran held its 10th parliamentary and 5th Assembly of Experts elections on February 26 with an overall turnout of 62 percent nationwide. At least 33 million out of the 55 million eligible voters took part in the polls.

Rouhani hailed the participation as “historic glory.”

The government made efforts to hold “legal, free and fair” elections, and did its utmost to “return hope to the society,” he noted.

He said whatever action was taken concerning the elections, including the rejection of some of the hopefuls’ eligibility to run in the polls, “was within framework of the law and this means political maturity.”

“Among all the factions, parties, and groupings, it was mostly moderates who were chosen and this means that our people have opted for moderation,” the Iranian president said of the results of the elections.

By Press TV

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