Iran rejects ‘worthless’ US claims about presidential election

Iran has categorically dismissed “worthless the meddlesome” remarks by a US administration official regarding the country’s ongoing presidential election. 

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani’s vehement condemnation came after Abram Paley, the deputy special envoy for Iran at the US State Department, accused the Islamic Republic in a post on his X social media account of “suppressing election coverage,” and claimed that the vote was not “free and fair,” among other false allegations.

“The American authorities will not benefit from such worthless statements and the Iranian people will strongly respond to such interventionist remarks with their effective and enthusiastic participation at the polls, just like in the past,” Kan’ani said on Friday.

“The genuine and direct role of the people in determining their political destiny in the Islamic Republic of Iran is an obvious principle and has always been proven in practice,” he added.

Kan’ani also underlined that the soundness and fairness of elections in Iran has been proven in previous cases of voting.

“The establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran and election organizers consider the people’s vote as a trust and a right of the people, and protecting it an obligation, the comprehension of which is probably difficult for the totalitarian mentality of American officials.”