The initial results of yesterday’s vote for the presidential elections in Iran assign Ebrahim Raisi the victory with “over 17.8 million votes”. Iranian President Hassan Rohani met with Raisi after the results were announced. This was reported by the Iranian agency Isna talking about the meeting between Rohani and the “elected president”. According to Isna, Rohani “congratulated” Raisi “for the victory” and also spoke with him about the “participation of the people in the elections”. According to the Ministry of the Interior, “28,600,000” voters out of more than 59 million eligible voters went to the polls. The newly elected “God willing will take over the presidency within 45 days,” Rohani said.