Ebrahim Raisi received 17.9 million votes, or about 62% of the ballots cast, according to Iran’s interior ministry.
Iran’s current president, Hassan Rouhani, visited Mr. Raisi on Saturday to congratulate him on the victory.
Mr. Raisi has criticized his predecessor’s outreach to Western countries-and the U.S. has targeted Iran’s new president with sanctions in 2019 for his close ties to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
In the months ahead, Mr. Raisi is expected to forge a path forward on the international nuclear deal that he says he supports and that Iranian and American diplomats are trying to revive.
With Mr. Raisi’s win, Iran’s main institutions are now controlled by the country’s conservatives, from the presidency and the military to the parliament and judiciary.
After heading Iran’s General Inspection Office, an anti-corruption body, for a decade, Mr. Raisi in 2004 became deputy of the country’s judiciary.
Although Mr. Raisi has said he supports the nuclear deal, because Mr. Khamenei has endorsed it, he has also said he doesn’t trust the U.S. More immediately, Mr. Raisi must address a flagging economy while keeping a check on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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