Moderate ahead in Iran

TEHRAN, June 15 (AFP) - Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani has a clear lead in Iran's presidential election, garnering 51 percent of the vote at 65 percent of polling stations across the country, the interior ministry said on Saturday. Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, collected 11,754,013 votes of the 23,014,873 ballots to have been counted by 3:30 pm (1100 GMT), the ministry said.