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| Name | IRAN: MODERATE MOHAMMAD KHATAMI WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION |
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| Video Discription | (24 May 1997) Natural Sound The moderate cleric, Mohammad Khatami, has swept to victory in Iran's presidential election. The main challenger, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, conceded defeat after about 17 million votes had been counted and revealed a Khatami landslide. Khatami's victory is a clear set back for hard-line fundamentalists in Iran. Iran's new President, Mohammad Khatami, will succeed Hashemi Rafsanjani when he steps down in August. Khatami's landslide victory has taken most analysts both within the country and abroad by surprise. It will also come as a body blow to the country's most hard-line fundamentalists. This year's election had widely been seen as a showdown between hard-line and moderate factions inside the ruling Muslim clergy. Many Iranians had suspected that the conservative clergy would do everything possible to stop a victory by Khatami. Senior influential clerics had declared it forbidden to vote for him. And Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, had tacitly supported Khatami's main challenger, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri. But it seems the hard-line clergy, who had held sway in Iran since the 1979 revolution, had misread the population. Preliminary results showed Nateq-Nouri trailing, with just 29 percent of the vote. Khatami had focused his efforts on attracting the youth vote. It was an intelligent tactic in a country where more than half the population of 60 (m) million is under the age of 18. Khatami appeared to have captured two-thirds of the vote. His victory would seem to be signal a widespread desire to move towards a more relaxed interpretation of Islam. The election was the first since the revolution in which Iranians had a real choice. So many voters turned out to vote on Friday that closing time for polling stations was extended twice. Eventually polls stayed open for four hours longer than normal. Turnout results were expected to show some 25 million out of an electorate of 33 million had voted. No one expects Khatami to bring fundamental changes to Iran's foreign policy or clergy-dominated politics, but his victory is likely to usher in a more moderate era in Iranian politics. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e02de23ce5337348f3c1db0d10b5812e |
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