The Austrian News Agency (APA) reported: The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) called the Friday elections in Iran “bogus elections”, and announced the call of NCRI for boycotting “clerical elections” was extensively supported.

Also the German daily Die Welt wrote: The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) announced there was no democratic election in Iran and what took place was an election show by a religious fascism. The Iranian regime will try systematically to intensify the war against Iranian people and the international community through this election.