Iran elects Hassan Rouhani as the new President

Of the six candidates who ran in Iran's presidential election, the most moderate and the only cleric —Hassan Rouhani
— has been declared the winner by Iranian state television. His victory was a startling triumph. He won more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round and avoided a runoff.
      Rouhani has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic with a long track record of having held very senior positions. He has been deputy speaker of the parliament, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative to the National Security Council and chief nuclear negotiator for former President Mohammad Khatami. (It was during that period that Iran accepted a moratorium on nuclear enrichment.) Most recently he has been the head of a key advisory group for Khamenei.