Several thousand people took to the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg claiming vote rigging in December 4 parliamentary elections in which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won about 50 percent of the votes.
However, Ambassador Sajjadi says the Western media exaggerated the scale of protests as part of a Western attempt to arrange a ‘color revolution’ in Russia as they did in other Eastern European countries.
“Despite all their attempts to encourage and finance the protests, Western countries couldn’t organize the opposition as they wished,” Iran’s top diplomat in Moscow commented.
“Perhaps the Russian government has got more than 5 million critics, but the number of people who poured into streets hardly exceeded 50,000” Sajjadi explained.
The Western media affiliated to the hegemonistic system “exaggerate the recent protests in Russia as they did about protests in Iran,” the diplomat stated.
President Dmitry Medvedev insisted the election had been fair and democratic.
Opposition party leaders from the Communist Party, Liberal Democrats and A Just Russia charged that the ruling United Russia party had bullied some government employees into voting for them, among other allegations.
Putin has said his opponents were using the parliamentary vote to try to create instability.
Putin victory is certain
Sajjadi also predicted that Putin will easily win the March presidential elections.
He said Putin remains popular among many Russians and his victory is all but certain.
“Putin is much more popular than the United Russia party and therefore will win the majority of votes,” Ambassador Mohammad Reza Sajjadi told the Mehr News Agency.
Putin is the front runner in presidential elections. Putin has said he needs "no tricks" and would win support fairly.
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