Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli has called on media outlets to help the government conduct a “healthy election”, Fars news agency reported on 7 March.
“I call on media outlets to help us hold healthy elections [the upcoming Majlis election], and inform us whenever they see any violations, leveraging, or God forbid, any fraud,” Interior Minister Rahmani-Fazli was quoted as saying.
Rahmani-Fazli was also quoted as saying: “After all the Interior Minister is a family, consisting of 31 governor-generals, 400 governors, and four thousand district governors, who might make some violation during the election process and we may not be informed of it. I ask them to inform us and be confident that I will deal with it immediately and I will not allow this issue to be dealt with by [some] committee. We should assure people that healthy elections will be held. All these things that we are doing are considered political.”
According to the report, Rahmani-Fazli also said that the government is a moderate government. “[President] Rouhani is not a reformist either. All of us [in the government] follow moderation,” Interior Minister Rahmani-Fazli was quoted as saying.
Later it was observed that Fars news agency deleted this report.
Source: Fars News Agency website, Tehran, in Persian at 0601 GMT 07 Mar 15