Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign, 2013
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| Campaign | 2013 Presidential Election |
| Candidate |
Hassan Rouhani Former Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Former Member of the Parliament |
| Affiliation | Moderation and Development Party |
| Status | Announced: 22 November 2012 Nominated: 7 May 2013 Registered: 21 May 2013 Won election: 14 June 2013 |
| Headquarters | 7th Tir street, Tehran, Iran |
| Key people |
Mohammadreza Nematzadeh (Chairman) Akbar Torkan (Deputy Chairman) Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (Adviser) Ali Younesi (Religious and Minorities) Mohammad Bagher Nobakht (Spokesperson) Masoud Soltanifar (Communications) |
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| Chant | Government of Prudence and Hope |
| Website | |
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Rouhani.ir Drrohani.com (Supporters) |
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Hassan Rouhani, a moderate Iranian politician and former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, also known as the Diplomat Sheikh, launched his presidential campaign in March 2013. He was earlier expected to withdraw and endorse Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani after he registered, but he returned to the race after Hashemi's disqualification. The symbol of Rouhani's campaign was a key and his slogan was "Government of Prudence and Hope." On 15 June, he was elected as the president with 18,613,329 votes.
Rouhani questioned the formal policy of the government about different issues.
Rouhani considers the existing problems in the field of economy and other sectors due to incorrect management by the incumbent administration. He admitted with proper planning, production units can be activated and jobs can be created, but this needs stability because sometimes economic regulations of the country have changed 50 times in a single month.
Rohani defended his track record as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator from October 2003 to August 2005. He said he moved war, sanctions, and the UN Security Council (resolutions) away from Iran. About his view on nuclear program and its relationship with economical problems due to sanctions he said:
"when a centrifuge is supposed to keep spinning while the entire country remains stagnant, meaning that we launch the single Natanz nuclear facility, but hundreds of our factories face problems, stop operating or work at a 20-percent capacity due to a lack of parts, raw materials and sanctions… that we do not approve of."
Rouhani has pledged more transparency about what he says is Iran’s peaceful nuclear enrichment program, aimed at producing fuel for nuclear reactors to generate electricity. He told Alsharq Alawsat:
”Iran has an exclusively peaceful nuclear program, which under international law is lawful and indisputable. A politically motivated campaign of misinformation has persistently attempted to cast doubts on the exclusively peaceful nature of this program. This campaign is being fueled and directed first and foremost by Israel, in order to divert international attention not only from its own clandestine and dangerous nuclear weapons program, but also from its destabilizing and inhuman policies and practices in Palestine and the Middle East. Regrettably, the Security Council has discredited itself by allowing the United States to impose this counter-productive Israeli agenda. If elected, I will reverse this trend by restoring international confidence . . . Nuclear weapons have no role in Iran’s national security doctrine, and therefore Iran has nothing to conceal. But in order to move towards the resolution of Iran’s nuclear dossier, we need to build both domestic consensus and global convergence and understanding through dialogue.""
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