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"It is evident and clear that elections should be free," Ayatollah Khamenei said, and asked, "Were more than the 30 elections in the last three decades not free? In which country are elections freer than Iran?"
He also warned that enemies have hatched plots to hinder mass-participation of the Iranian nation in the upcoming presidential election, describing it as the "tangible" goal of the enemies.
In September, the Iranian interior ministry announced that the country will hold the next presidential election on June 14, 2013.
Also in December, the ministry said that it has a close watch on all activities related to the upcoming presidential election throughout the country.
"We are monitoring (election) activities in all provinces and it is our routine mission," Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement Affairs Ali Abdollahi told FNA at the time.
"No security problem has so far been reported to us regarding the 2013 presidential election," he noted.
