Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, has stressed that the recent presidential elections in Iran, were the fairest, most free and healthiest elections in the Islamic Republic’s history.

Addressing a huge crowd of the faithful and Friday prayers worshippers in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati referred to suggestions of fraud in the 10th presidential elections, saying these suggestions were a plan hatched by some people both inside and outside of the country. He pointedly added: “If the recent elections are not valid as some have claimed, then all the elections held in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the past 30 years have not been valid, but if those elections were free, fair and healthy, then the 10th presidential elections held recently were also free, fair and healthy.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Tehran’s interim Friday prayers leader urged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to select qualified, capable, experienced, highly committed and principled individuals who are adept at handling the ministerial cabinet-level responsibilities they are given.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati also urged Iranian lawmakers in the Majlis to cooperate in giving a vote of confidence to all individuals who are nominated for ministerial positions.