Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, among those targeted in a new round of Trump administration sanctions on Iran, argued that the U.S. was 'a regime still plagued by election uncertainties.'
A senior Iranian official pushed back against a new round of U.S. sanctions, questioning the country's own record on holding free and fair elections and fighting terrorism.
He argued that Hook's accusation was instead"worthy of the American regime, a regime still plagued by election uncertainties and the crime of assassinating pioneers in the fight against terrorism."Iran's 12-member Guardian Council is appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Other members sanctioned Thursday include Secretary Ahmad Jannati, former Iranian Justice Chief Mohammad Yazdi and electoral supervisors Siamak Rahpeyk and Mohammad Hasan Sadeghi Moghadam.
The U.S. allows all eligible citizens to run for office but the country's two-party approach largely narrows choices down to those endorsed by either the Republican or Democratic Parties. The latter's primary process to choose a candidate to face President Donald Trump this Novemberwhen the final results of an extremely close Iowa caucus took several days to be released.
The election, set to take place Friday, comes amid a tumultuous time for the Islamic Republic, which faces tensions both at home and abroad. As part of a"maximum pressure" campaign, the Trump administration has imposed increasingly strict sanctions against Tehran that have both set off regional unrest and severely disrupted the Iranian economy.
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