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Iran says US left ‘shaking and angry’ by election

TEHRAN: Iran on Tuesday hit out US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for criticising its presidential elections, saying Washington had been left “shaking and angry” by the high turnout in the vote. “Massive participation of the Iranian people in the June 17 elections has confused the Americans,” said foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by the IRNA agency. Asefi was responding to comments by Rice in Egypt that the elections could not “mask the organised cruelty of Iran’s theocratic state” - the latest US broadside against the election process. “The United States are shaking and angry (since) the Islamic republic is taking strides on the path of development and progress and the Iranian people are decisively defending the regime and its goals,” said Asefi. Around 62 percent of the electorate turned out in the first round of the election, to the relief of the authorities who had made clear strong participation was needed to bolster the regime’s legitimacy. Asefi told the United States to experience “yet another decisive show of opposition by the Iranian people” in Friday’s second round between cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Tehran mayor Mahmood Ahmadinejad. afp

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