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Iran’s supreme leader slams US election

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, took to Twitter on Wednesday to slam the U.S. presidential campaign.

{mosads}Khamenei said the race and the issues being discussed were the “typical result of lack of spirituality & faith among those in power.” He used the popular #debate hashtag and in a second tweet also went after the U.S. media.

“One of the 2 main US presidential candidates will lead a country which has power, wealth & highest number of nukes & world’s biggest media!” he added.

Khamenei has weighed in on U.S. politics before, tweeting multiple times in 2014 about race relations in America.

He also used Twitter to criticize the landmark nuclear deal reached last year between Iran and international powers.