Khamenei says US faces 'punch in mouth' in Iran polls
- 8 years ago
Iran's supreme leader said Monday the United States was seeking to influence next month's elections in the Islamic republic but said such efforts would receive a "punch in the mouth".
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments related to parliamentary polls and a ballot for the Assembly of Experts, a powerful committee of clerics who will pick the country's next supreme leader when the incumbent, who is 76, dies.
Both elections take place on February 26.
Political moderates and reformists are seeking to wrest back control of the currently conservative-dominated 290 member parliament on the back of President Hassan Rouhani's nuclear deal with world powers last year.
Khamenei told a meeting of prayer leaders that attempts by "enemies" to distance Iran from its revolutionary mandate would fail.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments related to parliamentary polls and a ballot for the Assembly of Experts, a powerful committee of clerics who will pick the country's next supreme leader when the incumbent, who is 76, dies.
Both elections take place on February 26.
Political moderates and reformists are seeking to wrest back control of the currently conservative-dominated 290 member parliament on the back of President Hassan Rouhani's nuclear deal with world powers last year.
Khamenei told a meeting of prayer leaders that attempts by "enemies" to distance Iran from its revolutionary mandate would fail.