Tehran, YJC. Foreign Ministry in a statement addressing the recent elections in Afghanistan has urged the neighbor country’s leaders to respect the public choice.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed Afghanistan’s
recent presidential elections in an announcement urging respect for people’s
vote.
"With respect to the bills cast by the people of Afghanistan,
the Islamic Republic of Iran endorses the final winner of the Afghani elections
who would come out after the process of evaluating the complaints, believing
that Afghanistan’s future success will depend on a comprehensive government derived
from the pure vote of the people,” the announcement read, according to Mehr
News Agency.
The statement stressed that Iran, as an immediate neighbor
of Afghanistan, attaches great significance to the country’s security,
stability, solidarity, national unity and territorial integrity, rejecting any
move that would result in instability in the country.
The statement also said the rightful demands of candidates
for a full, accurate and fair investigation into irregularities must be
respected.
The release of initial results in Afghanistan’s presidential
vote showed that Ashraf Ghani won the run-off election with 56.44 percent of
the votes while his rival Abdullah Abdullah came in second with 43.56 percent.
Abdullah has rejected the initial results of the run-off
vote. "We will not accept a fraudulent result — not today, not tomorrow, never.
We don’t accept the results of frauds. People of Afghanistan were waiting for
the real results,” Abdullah told his supporters on Tuesday, Press TV reports.
"As it has time and again maintained, the Islamic Republic of
Iran believes that Afghan affairs have to be solved by the Afghani, those who
took responsibility to take part in the fervid presidential elections despite
threats by the extremist. Foreign intervention will only further complicate the
situation and wont be of any help,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry added.