Home >> Middle East >> Iran  Email  Print Show is over and the real game has begun Nasser Razy - 6/15/2009 The show was the election and the real game is the eruption of peoples silenced anger which can be seen in the streets of Tehran and other cities and can be heard in their slogans which is a clear indication of the will of Iranian society to uproot the religious dictatorship and establish freedom and democracy.
It all began with the televised debates between the so called candidates.
These debates only unveiled a small part of the crisis, decadence and corruption within the regime, its plunder of the nations’ wealth and its role in terrorism. According to some people within the regime, in this unbridled power struggle the parties involved in the debate uncovered the kind of things which were only exposed previously by the Iranian Resistance. The exposures were a turning point in the regime’s escalating internal feuding and a devastating blow to its entirety.
As far as the "Show" is concerned the social headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) inside the country announced that according to eyewitness reports from 25,000 polling stations across Iran, the real voter turnout was 7.5 million, and more than 85 percent of the 51.2 million eligible voters boycotted the mullahs’ sham presidential election.
The theocratic dictatorship, which has never allowed international observers to monitor elections in Iran, usually inflates voter turnout by 4 to 5 times. The Iranian Resistance has exposed this level of vote-rigging in previous election shams. The real level of support for the regime is no more than 3 percent, and the rest of the votes are either forged or the result of various threats and intimidations.
Quoting reliable sources in the election headquarters of the regime’s Interior Ministry, the Iranian Resistance on Thursday exposed a confidential directive by the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to announce voter turnout at 35 million and declare Ahmadinejad the winner in the first round.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described the boycott by 85 percent of Iranians as a ‘big NO’ by the people to the regime and all its discredited factions and an indication of the social and political readiness of the country for a democratic solution. Popular street protests especially by young people were more than anything an expression of opposition to a regime whose leaders admit that the charges exposed in recent television debates by the candidates were the same as those the Resistance had raised over the past three decades.
Mrs. Rajavi assessed that the reappointment of Ahmadinejad as the mullahs’ president would result in a sudden rise in suppression of opponents, widespread internal purge and factional feuding within the regime, redoubling of efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, rise in export of terrorism and fundamentalism, further meddling in Iraq and incitement of conflict in the region.
Fars news agency, affiliated to the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), described the election result and reappointment of Ahmadinejad as the ‘third revolution’ and the beginning of a ‘major surgery’. Khomeini had described the US embassy takeover in Tehran and the American hostage crisis as the ‘second revolution’.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance added that appeasement of the ruling religious fascism in Iran by the West had led to a totally opposite result to what was widely publicized. Thus, in the view of the Iranian people, its continuation and any concession to the regime is rejected more than ever and considered in vain and against peace and security in the region and the world.
Revelations of scandals in the regime’s inner circles and escalation of infighting within the regime are a decisive blow to the regime in its entirety whose consequences would move the regime toward increasing crises and demise. Mrs. Rajavi concluded that this is the beginning of the end of the clerical regime which is an isolated and uni-polarized religious fascism.
Referring to the fact that the regime's officials had admitted the protests had nothing to do with any of the candidates, Mrs. Rajavi said the protestors, like the vast majority of Iranians, are opposed to the clerical regime in its entirety and their courageous demonstration was a further clear sign of the readiness and will of Iranian society to uproot the religious dictatorship and establish freedom and democracy.
Mrs. Rajavi urged young people across Iran to come to the support of the protestors. She called on the international community and human rights organizations to condemn the brutal suppression of the anti-government protestors and take urgent action to save the lives of hundreds of young people who were arrested on Saturday. Today nothing can justify negotiating with and appeasing this medieval regime, and such actions are strongly condemned by the Iranian people, she said.
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