Kammala wannan jumla: Jahangiri ya kasance dan takarar mai neman sauyi a zaben shugaban kasa na 2013 amma ya janye a cikin goyon bayan 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 cikin
Zaben shugaban kasa na 2009. 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.