Ahmadinejad recounts multiple triumphs in election

More than five months after the June 12 elections, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad describes his landslide victory as multiple triumphs for the Iranian nation.

"The recent election was a success in many terms," said the Iranian President in an address to a group of campaign activists on Friday afternoon.

"First and foremost, the election was a success because of the extremely high voter turnout, an achievement that was repeatedly downplayed by Western powers," he added.

Ahmadinejad said the Iranian people's commitment to the main principles of the 1979 Islamic Revolution was another sign of success in the elections.

"Western countries had planned to represent a deep-running rift between the government and the people, and all their efforts were to no avail," he remarked.

Ahmadinejad was re-elected for a second term in office after winning more than 24.5 million of the votes in the country's tenth presidential election.

The voter turnout in the June polls was widely considered as 'unprecedented' across the globe.