By NNN-IRNA
Tehran : Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said here on Sunday that the Iranian nation was the real winner of the Friday parliamentary elections and the US was the real loser.
He told reporters that the US efforts to discourage the Iranian people from going to polls were failed.
The 8th Majlis elections and the by-election for the Experts Assembly were concurrently held on Friday March 14.
Hosseini further praised mass participation of the Iranian people in the elections and congratulated the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, the government and nation on the great victory.
On Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities, he said the activities would be continued clearly and transparently on the basis of rules and regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He reiterated that Iran’s nuclear activities are not faced with any “dead end”.
On President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Senegal, he said the Iranian president wound up his visit to that African country earlier in order to take part in the nationwide parliamentary election.
Ahmadinejad visited Dakar, capital of Senegal, to attend the 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
On Arab League meeting to be held in Damascus, Hosseini said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to attend the meeting.
It was his last weekly press conference in the current Iranian year (to end on March 19).
Hosseini further briefed the reporters on the achievements of Iran’s foreign diplomacy in the region and throughout the globe since the beginning of the current year.