"GLORIOUS ELECTION WAS HELD IN IRAN"

"No political crisis is felt in Iran," Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Armenia Mr. Seyed Ali Saghaeyan told a press conference today. Assessing the recent presidential election in Iran the Ambassador said it was a glorious election. "85% of eligible voters participated in the vote and 40 million ballots were cast in ballot boxes," he added. "Regardless of all preventive efforts taken by the West and the Unites States, Iran was able to surmount all obstacles and conduct a glorious election," underlined the Ambassador. With regard to Iranian-American relations, the Ambassador said: "Although President Barrack Obama came to power with a motto to bring changes in the country, so far he has effected no changes." According to Iranian mass media protests are being organized in Azerbaijan as well which made Iran recall its ambassador from Azerbaijan. In this connection Mr. Seyed Ali Saghaeyan said the ambassador was recalled for some other reasons. The post-election events in Iran resemble those of Armenia after the presidential election of 2008. In reply to A1+'s question whether the similarities are conditioned by cultural or some other factors, the Ambassador said: "Surely, the two peoples have much in common in literature, poetry, etc. But the March 1 events in Armenia are incomparable. The West spends great sums of money on inciting velvety revolutions in post-Soviet countries as was the case with Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Thanks to the reasonable steps of Armenian authorities a revolution was averted in Armenia."

| Home | >>

E-mail the article | Discuss the article

RSS © A1+

Headlines for July 01, 2009

"GLORIOUS ELECTION WAS HELD IN IRAN"
"No political crisis is felt in Iran," Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Armenia Mr. Seyed Ali Saghaeyan told a press conference today. Assessing the recent presidential election in Iran the ...
NIKOL PASHINIAN IS IN POLICE DEPARTMENT
At 3.00, July 1, Nikol Pashinian appeared at the Prosecutor General's Office with three advocates. Editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak daily Nikol Pashinian has been underground since October 2, 2008. ...
VOSKERCHIAN WASN'T TRANSFERRED TO COURT
Former Abovyan Mayor Grigor Voskerchian charged under the deadly clashes of March 1-2 didn't turn up at today's court trial. Judge of the General Jurisdiction Court of Kentron and Nork-Marash Districts ...
"THINK OF THIS COUNTRY"
NA MP, Chairman of the "Vogu Porzutyun" NGO Hakob Hakobian issued a statement today. "These days, the Armenian TV is overwhelmed with materials defaming Zaruhi Postanjian, and all people making statements ...
WHY DOESN'T SAFARIAN LEAVE FOR PARIS?
The press service of the Armenian National Assembly has released the following statement today: "Yesterday Heritage member Stepan Safarian sent a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly inquiring ...
235 PRISONERS AMNESTIED
...
NIKOL PASHINIAN ARRESTED
1
On July 1, 2009, Nikol Pashinian who was under search appeared gave himself up. He was arrested and taken to the "Kentron-Yerevan" Penitentiary by the policemen of the Police Kentron Department. His ...
ELITE GROUP GRANTED A LOAN
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) provided Armenian developer "Elite Group" CJSC with a loan of $5.5mln and a grant of €130 thousands to encourage "Elite Group" company's ...
SEMNEBY IS IN YEREVAN
On July 1 Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby. Discussed were issues related to different spheres of cooperation between ...
ARMENTEL IS FINED
Public Services Regulatory Commission decided to impose a fine of 8 million drams on ArmenTel Company, reports PSRC Spokesperson Mariam Stepanian. The Company turns out to have failed ...
EMERGENCY STATE
The giant hail and wind reported in Shirak Marz on June 30 uprooted trees and damaged roofs of several houses. Three poplars of 10-18-meter height fell down on buildings damaging 70-square-meter roofs. ...
BUILDING IS ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE
Residents of an Etchmiadzin hostel staged a protest near the Presidential residence on July 1. They wanted to inform Serzh Sargsyan that the hostel was in want of repair. 2.5 year-old Allan today joined ...
ARMENIA -A CONSOLIDATED AUTHORITARIAN COUNTRY
Freedom House issued its annual report where Armenia ranks among the "consolidated authoritarian regimes" Democracy Suffers Dark Year in Former Communist States in 2008, runs the report Nations in Transit ...
ALAVERDI CITIZEN SHOT DEAD
Alaverdi citizen Karen Sokhakian, 30, was shot dead at 02.20, July 1. On arriving on the scene a task force found out that an unknown person had opened fire in the direction of a Chrysler 300 owned by ...
"TER-PETROSIAN WILL MAKE NEW AND SERIOUS ACCENTS"
The amnestied political prisoners will meet with their supporters near the Matenadaran at 7:30, July 2. "They have missed each other. The spiritual connection between the public and the political prisoners ...