TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hussein Dehqan says the United States is under an illusion if it assumes that it can influence the outcome of the forthcoming presidential election in Iran.
Speaking in an interview with RT Arabi, Dehqan stressed that the Islamic Republic pursues a firmly-established and principled approach toward the U.S.
"If the Americans think that they can influence Iran’s election, they are completely deluded because the Iranian nation is a wise nation and knows its enemies and acts contrary to the enemy’s demand,” he said.
Dehqan said the U.S. and Britain as well as the various media outlets affiliated to them seek to support one political camp against the other in Iran's election.
"We are telling them that that is not how things are and our nation makes decisions based on the conditions specific to that time ," the minister said, adding, "That's why they do not look to the U.S. or UK in elections."
Dehqan further emphasized that the Iranian people are fully aware that the West offers no "breakthrough" to them.
"The Iranians are struggling for the realization of their own dignity. This issue has been proven over the past thirty or more years that the Iranian nation is moving along a clear path for the materialization of its goals and will certainly view issues according to their own special conditions and never forget the main objective."