The US does not expect a “fundamental change” in Will whoever wins the presidential elections, the first round of which was neither “fair nor free”.
Iran’s presidential election will be decided on July 5 between the candidates – reformist Massoud Pezhezkian and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili – who prevailed in the first round, where turnout was the lowest since the creation of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
“We believe that these elections in Iran they are neither fair nor free“, US State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.
“We do not expect these elections, whatever the outcome, to lead to fundamental changes in the governance of Iran or to make the Iranian regime respect human rights or provide more dignity to its citizens,” he added.
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The spokesman also disputed the numbers released by the Iranian government.
“Even the Iranian government’s official data on voter turnout, like most other data linked to the Iranian regime, is unreliable,” he said.
Turnout in the first round held on Friday was 39.92 percent, the lowest in the Islamic Republic’s 45-year history and a far cry from the 80 percent turnout in presidential elections at the end of the 20th century.
Sources: AMPE, AFP