Ayatollah Khamenei Predicts High Turnout in Iran’s Elections

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei predicts a high turnout in Iran’s upcoming parliamentary elections, describing the event as yet another firm slap in the face of the global arrogance.

Reiterating the significance of a large voter turnout in the 9th parliamentary elections, the Leader said that the Iranian nation will display their firm determination to enemies of the country.

In Friday’s elections, said the Leader, the Iranian nation will serve another blow to the face of hegemonic powers that would be even harder than the one delivered on February 11 during rallies marking the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution throughout the country.

Ayatollah Khamenei added in an address to a huge crowd of visiting people in the capital Tehran that Iranian voters will demonstrate their determination and will power to enemies so that hegemonic powers would realize that they are doomed to failure in their efforts against the Iranian nation.

The Leader pointed to Western-sponsored media publicity campaigns to dissuade Iranians from taking part in the elections and said the high turnout of voters will deal a heavy blow to global hegemony.

“The United State, the West, and Zionism want to stop the Iranian people from moving on the path that has resulted in the general awakening of the Muslim world and has become a pattern, and then tell other nations that the leading nation of Iran has despaired and this pattern has failed.”

Ayatollah Khamenei said that Friday’s vote was much more important than previous elections as enemies had invested all their remaining energy in the March 2 elections.