DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's election vetting body spokesman said he was honoured to be blacklisted by the United States, which sanctioned five members of the Guardian Council for preventing free and fair elections in the Islamic Republic.
"It made us happy to be sanctioned by the enemy of our nation ... I am honoured to be sanctioned by America," Abasali Kadkhodai was quoted as saying by Iran's state agency IRIB.
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