Iran rejects international election supervision

In Tehran, where Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for Iran's top electoral oversight body, the Guardian Council, says that holding elections under international supervision is an "insult to the common sense" of Iranians.

Speaking to media one day ahead of the parliamentary polls, the spokesman says more than 70 percent of the candidates have been approved as eligible for election, while 30 of the existing members of parliament have been rejected.

Comments by Kadkhodaei come a day after a bipartisan group of US senators said they were introducing a resolution in the US Senate calling on Iran to hold free and open parliamentary elections. The resolution calls for an end to abuses like detention of the government's political opponents, the lifting of Internet curbs and the presence of international monitors for Friday's vote.

In Tehran, where Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for Iran's top electoral oversight body, the Guardian Council, says that holding elections under international supervision is an "insult to the common sense" of Iranians.

Speaking to media one day ahead of the parliamentary polls, the spokesman says more than 70 percent of the candidates have been approved as eligible for election, while 30 of the existing members of parliament have been rejected.

Comments by Kadkhodaei come a day after a bipartisan group of US senators said they were introducing a resolution in the US Senate calling on Iran to hold free and open parliamentary elections. The resolution calls for an end to abuses like detention of the government's political opponents, the lifting of Internet curbs and the presence of international monitors for Friday's vote.

Source: GNA