‎A week after the Liberation Movement of Iran called for international supervision of ‎Iran’s forthcoming parliamentary elections, which was followed by attacks by right wing ‎media such as Keyhan and Resalat, ayatollah Khamenei called such an invitation as the ‎biggest insult to the Iranian nation, thus ending the debate on the subject.‎

He called on the Iranian people to vote in the eight Majlis elections with full knowledge. ‎And without referring to the role that the appointed members of the Guardian Council ‎play vetting candidates and controlling the elections process, which is the criticism that ‎pro-democracy movement and individuals who have decided to boycott the elections ‎make, he called the elections in the Islamic Republic to be reflective of freedom. In his ‎talk to the people of Qom, he denounced the monarchial regime that ended in 1979, and ‎called on the religious leaders of the country to induce the public to participate in the ‎forthcoming elections. ‎

Calling elections to be one of the key elements of the greatness of the Iranian nation and ‎the Islamic regime, Khamenei added, “Elections, which are reflective of democracy, have ‎been held in Iran about once a year on the average during the past 28 years. This is ‎indicative of the victory of the Iranian nation because it showed people’s participation, ‎people’s decisions and the courage of the Islamic order to depend on the vote and wishes ‎of the people.‎

He expressed disappointment over the words of those who called for supervision against ‎fraud in the elections and said that during the last 28 years, elections in Iran had been ‎held in the absolute perfect manner, and questioned why did some individuals discredit ‎the respect of the elections, which he said he hoped was not ill-intended.‎

The leader of the Islamic regime called the requests of some individuals for international ‎supervision by the enemies of the state as “shameful” and the “biggest insult to the ‎Iranian nation.” He said, “Executive and supervisory officials have always been perfect in ‎their duties to perform what they have been entrusted with , and they will repeat the same ‎in the forthcoming eight Majlis elections.”‎

‎“The public and those who are verbally supported by the President of the United States ‎must ponder why America wishes to support. What has been their role that makes the ‎United States keen on supporting them. In addition to distancing themselves from the ‎enemy, political groups and individuals must also disassociate themselves from foreign ‎stooges, puppets and those who are in the service of foreigners,” he said.‎

During former president Khatami’s administration and on the even of the Majlis ‎elections, reformers and those groups that were critical of the Guardian Council’s ‎appointed decisions, who also planned to take a plan to the Majlis to cancel the elections, ‎ayatollah Khamenei banned any discussion about the interference of the Guardian’s ‎Council in the elections and through this threat shut any public discussion of the issue.‎

Even though supervision by appointed officials was an authority that was approved by ‎the right-wing factions of the third Majlis who had a majority in the legislative body, ‎members of the sixth Majlis believed that by passing legislature they could return to the ‎atmosphere of the elections of the first decade of the revolution in the 1980s. They did ‎not intend to give authority to the 12 members of the Guardians Council to filter out ‎candidates to the elections.‎