Iran accused the United States on Tuesday of meddling in its domestic affairs after the State Department cast doubt on the legitimacy of incoming Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s landslide victory.
The 60-year-old hard-line judiciary chief won more than 17.9 million of the 28.9 million votes cast on Friday, according to Iran’s Interior Ministry. More than 3.7 million ballots were left blank, many believed to be protest votes. Even before ballot-counting was complete on Friday, Raisi’s three rivals had conceded the race.
