Tehran hit back on Saturday at the European Parliament, saying its recent resolution about alleged `lack of respect for democratic procedures` indicated Europe`s `lack of proper understanding of Iran`s realities and its intricacies`.
| "What do you guys know about democracy, anyway?" |
EP regretted Thursday what it called `the severe setback in efforts towards the establishment of democratic structures in Iran represented by the exclusion of many candidates from the forthcoming parliamentary elections`. Iran`s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said, "The forthcoming Majlis election is an internal issue and any measure which may lead to the conception of interference in Iran`s internal affairs is unacceptable and not worthy of paying heed to."
| "So you guys can just piss off until we need something from you." |
"European Parliament is advised to focus its efforts and time on dealing with flagrant human rights violations in the European countries and inattention to the rights of minorities, especially Muslims, and refrain from raising issues which they have nothing to do with," he added. |