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Iran's supreme leader, quoting Trump, mocks U.S election

Tehran
November 3, 2020

Iran's supreme leader mocked America's Presidential election Tuesday in a televised address, quoting President Donald Trump's own baseless claims about voter fraud to criticize the vote as Tehran marked the 1979 U.S Embassy hostage crisis.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated a long-standing Iranian position that it didn't matter whether Trump or Joe Biden wins the vote, but the stakes couldn't be higher for the Islamic Republic.

Another four years could see Trump's maximum pressure campaigns further expand as it crushes the Iranian economy and stops Tehran from openly selling its crude oil abroad. Biden meanwhile has said he would consider re-entering Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, providing possible relief to the beleaguered Iranian rial.

"If you look at their own situation, it's lovely to watch. The incumbent president, who is supposed to hold the election throughout history," Khamenei said, not acknowledging that individual U.S states run the vote. Who says this ? The The sitting President who is arranging the elections himself. His opponent says Trump intends to widely cheat. This is American democracy.''

Khamenei added that the result of the vote is none of our business, meaning it won't influence our policy at all. Our policy is clear and well calculated and people coming and going will have no impact on it.''