IRAN’S communists joined a mass boycott of today’s “sham” parliamentary elections, calling for all democratic forces to unite in struggle against tyranny, oppression and corruption.

The Tudeh Party insisted that the poll was in reality “a failed attempt to prove the legitimacy of the regime” to the international community.

It said the elections lacked credibility, warning that there “has never been and can never be a democratic and popular exercise under the supervision” of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.