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Ebrahim Raisi, wins Iran's Presidential Election.

Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judiciary chief with a brutal human rights record, will be the next president of Iran following his win in an uncompetitive election that most of the country sat out.

Raisi, who has long opposed engagement with the West and is a close ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sailed to victory in a poll that saw all of his serious rivals barred in the runup to the race.

The 60-year-old won almost 18 million of the nearly 29 million ballots cast, Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli announced. But many reform-minded Iranians refused to take part in an election widely seen as a foregone conclusion. Overall voter turnout was 48.8% -- the lowest since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.

President-elect Raisi will officially take office in 45 days, at which point he will become Iran's eighth president. Until that time, Hassan Rouhani will remain acting president of Iran. 

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