Syria

Iranian Envoy: Security Situation Relatively Ripe for Syrian Election

13920320000673_PhotoIIranian Ambassador to Damascus Mohammad Reza Rao’uf Sheibani stressed that the security situation in Syria has been prepared for the Tuesday presidential election in the crisis-hit country.
“The Syrian people are prepared for holding the election and the security situation has relatively been prepared for holding the election,” Rao’uf Sheibani told FNA on Saturday.

He added that the Syrian people are now conducting their everyday life and trying to reconstruct their country.

Rao’u Sheibani described presidential election in Syria as an effective way to thwart the plots hatched by the western states against the Middle-Eastern country.

“Those who have destroyed Syria should compensate for the loss and damage they have incurred on this country and this is the right of the Syrian people to claim indemnity against those who have destroyed their country through schemes and plots,” the Iranian diplomat said.

The presidential election in Syria will be held on June 3 despite a surge of West-backed terror attacks mostly against civilian targets by armed militants as well as opposition publicity campaigns to undermine the landmark election process.

Meanwhile, Syrian expatriates casted their votes at the country’s embassies and missions abroad, showing a massive turnout that even shocked the western media.

Voting for the Syrian expatriates in neighboring Lebanon was extended for an additional day due to an unprecedented turnout.

There are three candidates in Syria’s presidential election, namely incumbent President Bashar al-Assad and Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajjar and Hassan Abdallah al-Nuri.

According to the Syria’s Interior Ministry officials, nearly 16 million Syrians are eligible to vote in the upcoming presidential poll.

Damascus has insisted that it would hold the presidential poll despite the foreign-backed militancy, which has, according to some sources, killed over 150,000 people and displaced millions of others since it erupted in Syria in March 2011.

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