Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Jahangiri ya kasance dan takarar mai neman sauyi a zaben shugaban kasa na 2013 amma ya janye a madadin Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sannan ya zama manajan yakin neman zaben Rafsanjani. Ya kasance daya daga cikin wadanda suka kafa jam'iyyar Executives of Construction Party kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin babban sakatarenta daga 2006 zuwa 2010. Ya kuma kasance memba na yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa na Mir-Hossein Mousavi a zaben shugaban kasa na 2009.
Ka yi haƙuri. A ranar 23 ga Yuli, 2013, an ba da rahoton cewa Jahangiri zai zama Mataimakin Shugaban Kasa na gaba kuma Rouhani zai nada shi bayan rantsar da shi. A ranar 29 ga Yuli, an tabbatar da shi a hukumance, har sai an nada shi zuwa mukamin a ranar rantsar da shi. An nada shi a hukumance a ranar 4 ga watan Agusta ta Rouhani a matsayin mataimakinsa na farko, wanda ya maye gurbin Mohammad Reza Rahimi.