Iranian presidential candidates Alireza Zakani, who is a Principlist, and Nasser Hemmati, a Moderate generally viewed as close to the Reformists, engage in a war of words on Twitter over Iran’s economic hardships.

Presidential candidate Alireza Zakani has criticized the President Hassan Rouhani administration for “failing to get the necessary guarantees” in a nuclear deal with major world states that was struck in 2015.

Iranian presidential candidate Alireza Zakani says the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program is staged by Western governments in pursuit of their “neo-colonialist” goals, and that the Americans will ‘beg’ and remove all the sanctions on Iran if he wins the election.

Principlist lawmaker Alireza Zakani represents the city of Qom in Iran’s 11th Parliament (Majlis).