2017 Iranian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 19 May 2017, the twelfth such elections in Iran. Local elections were held simultaneously.
Image: Hassan Rouani 2017 portrait
Image: Raisi at Urumia 04 (cropped)
Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who endorsed his protégé, and former vice president Hamid Baghaei, registered as a candidate along with him.
Third Iranian debate, 2017 election
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian Islamist politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He has been a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts since 1999. He was a member of the Expediency Council from 1991 to 2021, and also was a member of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2021.
Rouhani was deputy speaker of the fourth and fifth terms of the Parliament of Iran (Majlis) and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In the latter capacity, he was the country's top negotiator with the EU three, UK, France, and Germany, on nuclear technology in Iran, and has also served as a Shia mujtahid, and economic trade negotiator.
Rouhani in 2020
Rouhani as a teenager
Rouhani's daughter speaking with Rouhani's brother Hossein Fereydoun
Rouhani surrounded by his family at his father's funeral, Noor mosque, Tehran on 5 October 2011