Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei blasted the US presidential election as a “spectacle” amid Donald Trump’s voter fraud allegations. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Iranian elections a “joke” in an ensuing Twitter spat.
“The situation in the US & what they themselves say about their elections is a spectacle!” Khamenei wrote on Twitter.
This is an example of the ugly face of liberal democracy in the US.
Khamenei wrote that the “decline of the US regime” was “absolutely clear,” regardless of the outcome of the vote. The Iranian official previously branded the US election as a “spectacle” on Election Day on November 4, referring to the multiple times President Donald Trump had alleged that there were attempts to rig the vote.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo quickly engaged in a Twitter spat by accusing Khamenei of stealing “hundreds of millions of dollars from your people” and spending “billions on proxy wars to protect your kleptocracy.”
Your elections are a joke, with hundreds of candidates disqualified from even running.
Pompeo went on to describe the US as “the greatest nation in all of human history.”
The 2015 deal was signed by the Barack Obama administration, in which Biden served as vice president. During his election campaign, Biden pledged to rejoin the agreement if Tehran returns to following it in full as well.
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