Enemies after new sedition in upcoming election: Army official

Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem added, “Decline of US powerin regional and international scenes, including its exit from Iraq has increased Washington's hostility toward Iran, and the Whitehouse has tried to pressure Tehran under the pretext of various issues like Tehran’s peaceful nuclear activities, alleged support of terrorism and violation of human rights,” the official added.

Ale-Hashem underlined that the enemies will do their best to provoke unrests similar to Iran’s 2009 presidential election get engaged in another sedition during the upcoming parliamentarian election.

Iran's week-long parliamentary election campaign began on Thursday, February 23rd. The parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held on March 2nd.

Iran's supervisor boday over the elcetion process, the Guardians Council, has approved the competence of more than 3,400 candidates to run for the Iranian parialment's 290 seats.

On February 21, Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said that 48,288,799 people are eligible to cast their votes at the ballots in the upcoming election.

He added that over 5,400 hopefuls had registered to contest for the 290 parliamentary seats and noted that more than 47,000 polling stations will operate nationwide during the elections.

Some 3.9 million people will cast their votes for the first time.

On June 12, 2009, after incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected as the next president of the country with over 62 percent of the votes cast in Iran's 10th presidential election, supporters of his main rival Mir Hossein Mousavi rejected the results and took to the streets of Tehran and other cities in daily rallies.

But later, millions of Iranian people as well as the Iranian police, IRGC and Basij (mobilized volunteers) forces staged a strong presence and ended weeklong demonstrations and unrests in the capital.

Iran has repeatedly accused the west of stoking post-election unrests, singling out Britain and the US for meddling. Tehran has also revealed strong evidence substantiating the interfering role of several foreign embassies and diplomats in stirring riots in Iran.

In the meantime, Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

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