Iran's Interior Minister: First official election returns show Hasan Rowhani with strong lead

June 15, 2013 at 1:33AM
In front of a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, center, gestures to his supporters at a rally in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 1, 2013. The 11th presidential election after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, will be held on June 14. Two men sitting next to Rowhani are unidentified.
In front of a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, center, gestures to his supporters at a rally in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 1, 2013. The 11th presidential election after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, will be held on June 14. Two men sitting next to Rowhani are unidentified. (Tom Wallace — ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Interior Minster: First official election returns show Hasan Rowhani with strong lead .

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