"Mr. Trump! You entered Riyadh under the conditions that the Iranian nation created a great epic and won the world people's admiration. Our nation's move showed that Iran is full of freedom and democracy," Rezaei, a former IRGC top commander, wrote on his Instagram page on Saturday after people's high turnout in the Friday presidential election and incumbent President Hassan Rouhani's win for a second time.
"Don’t you want to ask your hosts why there is no freedom and democracy in Saudi Arabia?" he asked.
President Rouhani was officially named as the winner of Iran's Friday election to maintain power for another 4-year term in office.
Iran's election headquarters said Rouhani has won 23,549,616 (57%) votes from the 41,220,131 (99.7%) ballots cast by the Iranian people on Friday.
His main rival Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi has secured 15,786,449 (38.5%) votes.
Mostafa Aqa-Mirsalim has won 478,215 votes ranking 3rd in the race for the Islamic Republic's presidential post, while Seyed Mostafa Hashemi-Taba has gathered 215,450 votes.
A number of 56, 410,000 people were eligible to vote in the elections. 1,350,294 million youths came to be eligible to vote for the first time in their lives as the voting age in Iran is above 18 according to the law.
City and village council elections were held in tandem with the 12th presidential vote on Friday. The elections were held at 63,500 polling stations in Iran and hundreds more in nearly 100 other world countries.
Campaigning for the May 19 presidential election kicked off in Iran on April 21 after the Guardian Council released the list of 6 qualified candidates, although only 4 remained for the race.
People throughout the country also cast their ballots to elect members of city and village councils along with the presidential election on Friday.
Voting lasted for 16 hours and polls closed at 24:00 local time after the deadline was extended four times. Ballot counting started at 24:00 midnight and final results will be announced in 24 hours following the election.
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20 May 2017 - 13:48
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezaei called on US President Donald Trump, who is on a visit to Riyadh, to ask his hosts about the reason for the lack of democracy and freedom in Saudi Arabia.
