Hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi set to become Iran's president

Raisi will be the first serving Iranian president sanctioned by the US government.

Tehran: Iran’s ultraconservative cleric and judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi appears to have won the presidential elections held with other candidates conceding defeat. Three out of four candidates in Iran's presidential election have conceded defeat hours before the interior ministry is expected to announce the official results, Al Jazeera reported. Raisi will be the first serving Iranian president sanctioned by the US government. Early reports said the conservative head of the judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, won by a wide margin.