US doesn’t expect parliamentary elections in Iran to be free

The US administration doesn’t expect Iran’s March 1 parliamentary elections to be free and fair, US Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a briefing, Report informs.

“So I have no expectation that Iran’s elections will be free and fair, and I suspect that a great number of Iranians have no expectation that those elections will be free and fair. As you probably already know, thousands of candidates were already disqualified in an opaque process, and the world has long known that Iran’s political system features undemocratic and nontransparent administrative, judicial, and electoral systems,” he noted.