Senior MP calls on US to ponder on Iranians’ high turnout in election

A senior Iranian legislator said on Wednesday that the Iranian people’s high turnout in the June 12 presidential election served as an alarm to the US.

“The Iranian people with much spirit, energy and enthusiasm succeeded in holding an election which could alarm the US,” Head of the parliament’s Cultural Commission Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said, addressing a large congregation of the people who had gathered in front of the former US embassy in Tehran to mark its takeover in 1979.

Haddad Adel also described the US interference in Iran’s internal affairs by claiming fraud in the presidential election as disrespect for the principles of populism.

“Despite its mottos about supporting the human rights and democracy, The US has never supported populist governments and administrations,” he added.

Haddad Adel described the United States’ foreign policy as paradoxical, and said, “While the US claims to be a supporter and harbinger of democracy, it fully supports creation of dictator governments in the world.”

Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life and many political persuasions staged a rally at the site of the former US embassy in Tehran, better known in Iranian history as the ‘Den of Spies’.

November 4 marks three important events in Iranian history: the takeover of the former US embassy in Tehran by Muslim students following the Imam’s line in 1979 and the exile of the late Founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini by the deposed Shah in 1964.

Since the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, Iranians have been celebrating the occasion every year by holding rallies on the anniversary and marking it as the National Day against the ‘Global Arrogance’.

In 1979, Iranian university students took over the building to thwart Washington’s plots against the Islamic Revolution that was only a few months old at the time.

Inside the embassy, the students found shredded documents which proved their convictions.