Tehran 0
7 November 2020

After Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei remarked that the U.S. 2020 presidential election showed “the ugly reality of liberal democracy inside the U.S.”, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo riposted that “your elections are a joke, with hundreds of candidates disqualified from even running. Today, your people starve because you spend billions on proxy wars to protect your kleptocracy”. “We welcome the day when the Iranian people get their wish – and you know what that is”, Pompeo added.

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