Baghdad Post, May 19 2017 – Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton has slammed Iran’s presidential election as a lie. 

In an exclusive interview with the Voice of America’s Persian service, Bolton said “If free elections were held in Iran, Ayatollahs would be the losers”. 

The veteran diplomat added the difference between moderates and extremists is a lie because only those can run for election whom pass Guardian Council’s screening and meet supreme leader’s approval.

I think the system that has been designed and established in Iran can be subjected to manipulation and fraud and has long been like that. Election candidates don’t have any mandates of their own in Iran, the US former Undersecretary of State for International Security confirmed.