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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is on course to make sweeping gains against conservatives in Parliament according to partial election results which on yesterday showed his allies winning decisively in Tehran. The List of Hope, a pro-Rouhani coalition of moderates and reformists, is ahead in all but one of the capital’s 30 seats, with 44 per cent of votes counted. The projected rout in Tehran was in marked contrast to earlier initial results from across the country which showed seats split between the main conservative list, Rouhani’s allies and independent candidates.
Coming just a month after sanctions were lifted under Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, the outcome of yesterday’s vote is being seen as a de-facto referendum on Rouhani’s administration.
Turnout in the election was solid at 60 per cent, but slightly less than the 64 per cent of 2012.There was further good news for the President in the second election that took place yesterday, for the Assembly of Experts, a powerful committee of clerics that monitors the work of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile President Hassan Rouhani in a message thanked the Iranian nation for their epic turnout in Iran’s Assembly of 
Experts and parliamentary elections.
‘The name of the Islamic Republic of Iran become more famous with the manifestation of the power to choose of the Iranian nation,’ President Rouhani said in his message.
‘The government of prudence and hope will make a covenant with anyone whose name will come out of the ballot box to help create a future full of hope and dignity for dear Iran and Iranians,’ the Iranian president said.
President Rouhani said whatever will be the outcome of elections, the Islamic Republic of Iran will become more famous and the Islamic system, leadership and nation have won and the people of Iran have once again displayed their will and power to choose to empower the elected government and grant more credit to it.
‘The competition came to an end and now it is time to open a new way through consensus and convergence of the nation and government and by relying on opportunities created from outside, to open a new chapter in the growth and flourishing of national economy,’ he added.