Ayatollah Modarresi-Yazdi:

BBC calling on Iranians not to vote for Principalist scholars

Rasa – A member of Iran’s Guardian Council has reacted to a program on BBC which explicitly ordered Iranians to vote for reformists and moderates and prevent those conservative scholars who are against the British position from winning in the February 26th parliamentary and Assembly of Experts’ elections.

News ID: 3973

Date: 21 February 2016 - 21:15

RNA – In sermons delivered at Tehran’s Ali ibn al-Husayn Mosque and Shahid Beheshti Mosque, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad-Reza Modarresi-Yazdi, a member of Iran’s Guardian Council, stated that the United Kingdom is attempting to interfere in Iran’s February 26th parliamentary and Assembly of Experts’ elections and called for collective consciousness.

He said that the UK has committed more crimes throughout history, from the East to the West, than any other country in history, and that most of these crimes have been within the last 300 years.

“These crimes have caused great damage in countries including the Ottoman Empire, Japan, China, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and even against the United States,” he said.

The member of Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom said that the UK and its allies have sought to interfere in Iran’s elections and that everybody knows that the British state broadcaster and its propaganda arm, the BBC, is in the service of the British intelligence in its crimes.

He refered to a program that "has been recently broadcast which called on Iranians to prevent the enemies of the UK Ayatollahs Ahmad Jannati, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi and Mohammad Yazdi from being elected to the Assembly of Experts and offered an analysis on how to do so by voting strategically for reformists and moderates which have been “approved” by the British government."

His Eminence called on Iranians who are opposed to "the BBC’s propaganda scheme" to "officially declare and denounce this scheme and state that they are not part of anything that the UK has planned against Iran and its elections."

He added that those who promote such an approach should also be condemned. “If such individuals are not condemned then some have at least been silent in the battle of right and wrong,” he stressed, adding that some individuals within Iran have been agents or accessories to the enemies’ plots against the Islamic Republic.

The Iranian cleric emphasized that it is a shame that the British government is so full of hypocrisy and crime that they would tell the Iranian people whom to vote for and how to vote and who should enter the Parliament or Assembly of Experts or not. “Such actions must be condemned and renounced,” Ayatollah Modarresi-Yazdi added.

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