Reaction from Haaretz world news editor:
Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated President Rohani on his victory in the May 19 vote.
A reference to Ebrahim Raisi's role in the executions after summary trials of thousands of regime opponents in the 1980s:
Iranians are poking fun at Raisi, who before the vote met with controversial rapper Tataloo, who has 4 million followers on Instagram:
Hassan Rohani says on Twitter that the Iranian people are "the real winner" of the presidential vote:
Good point:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has congratulated Rohani on his reelection, the hard-line Fars news agency reports.
Tehran, long Damascus's staunchest ally, has sent senior military advisers and thousands of "volunteers" to help Assad's regime battle armed opposition fighters and an array of other anti-regime forces since fighting broke out in Syria in 2011. Iran has also even allowed the use of its military facilities to Russian warplanes conducting bombing raids in Syria to prop up Assad.
Some thoughts from Iran analyst Suzanne Maloney:
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Iranian people on the high turnout.