Friday, May 19, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
2017 "Election" in Iran - Interview With the Chair of NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee
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NCRI - In an interview with ncr-iran.org, the chair of Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Mohammad Mohaddessin responded to a series of questions concerning Iran regime’s upcoming “presidential election”, the following is the first part of this interview.
What are the choices before the Iranian people and what do they expect?
Very interesting question. If you walk on the streets of Tehran or go on social media in Iran, you will find your answer. You will see so many posters which read: No to the executioner Raisi; No to the demagogue Rouhani, my vote is regime’s overthrow. That is how the people of Iran see the choices before them. They are talking about choosing between “worse” and “even worse”. The Iranian people, after 38 years of clerical regime, do not expect anything from the election. They have seen so many of these sham elections. They know in their soul that elections do not mean anything in Iran. It is only a show trying to justify the absolute rule of Velayat-e Faqih. It is time for the West to rid itself of this misguided perception, fomented by Tehran’s lobby, that the people of Iran consider serious differences between the candidates. The only difference is that one is an executioner who loudly confirms it and the other one who talks moderate but acts exactly the same.
Rouhani has recently said “people of Iran do not support those who in the past 38 years only know execution and prison,” who was he referring to? Ebrahim Raisi? Has there been any reaction to his remarks? How do you analyze his remarks?http://bit.ly/2qifILy
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Iran: Former Dean of Tehran University: The Only Remaining Option for People Is That They Do Not Participate in the Election
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NCRI - Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first Dean of Tehran University after the revolution, called the regime's elections a “puppet show" and ridiculous play. The performance of the reformists and the conservatives are only created to deceive the people. Dr. Maleki, in an interview with an online television show on May 9th, said: “What is happening in Iran, it is essentially a puppet show. It is a show, because according to them, among 1600 registered candidates, only five were chosen, who also regularly worked for the system and then they are asking people to vote for six. I think this is simply not an election.”
Dr. Maleki, referring to the televised debates of candidates for regime’s election, said: "The question is that in this country during these past 38 years, have you guys not always been in an official position? You weren't minister, parliamentarian, ambassador and security commissioner, you weren't executioner and a number of people weren't martyred in this country, and the tens of thousands who were executed didn’t happen under your command? Weren't you in command?”
"Mr. Rouhani is the one who was in the Security Council or Security Commission from the first day. His position has been always security and he has monitored all of the criminal acts of this government. Mr. Raisi is so oblivious. He was a member of the government’s death commission, which martyred over thirty thousand people nationwide, and now, with all rudeness, he and Mr. Pour Mohammadi (Justice Minister of Rouhani) are saying our work was good, it was correct, because we acted upon Imam Khomeini’s order.”
Dr. Maleki pointed out the fights between Rouhani and Raisi are over power sharing, and Rouhani’s quest to ..http://bit.ly/2rgLyFT.
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
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On May 19, Iran's mullahs will elect the nation's next president. While Iran's president has executive authority, his power remains secondary to that of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Even with that curious arrangement, it's not a done deal until Khamenei can solve a major riddle to ensure that his favorite candidate wins at the ballot box.
Throughout this presidential election, Khamenei faces different dilemmas, because the vast majority of Iranians reject the six hand-picked candidates for the presidential election and call it a sham. So, by fair means or foul, the mullahs will get what they want, but the role and dilemma of ethnic minorities in Iranian society is an important parameter to consider in this vote. Minorities such as Arab, Baluch, Kurd, Lor, Turk, and Turkmen make up almost 50% of the population and inhabit about 70% of Iran's land mass. Iran's ethnic minorities have been heavily ignored and marginalized by the theocratic government.
Economic and political issues have proven effective at mobilizing ethnic minorities. In the past year, both Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (known by its initials IRGC) and the Basij units have conducted large-scale military exercises in Baluchistan, the southeastern province in Iran, and in the city of Ahwaz in Khuzestan, an oil-rich province. The IRGC has also been linked to drug traffickers' gangs to smuggle opium from Iran through the ethnic minorities' areas, especially Baluchistan, bringing havoc to those areas.http://bit.ly/2rcjpQj
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Iran, fearing uprisings, holds presidential debate
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"The debates should be on presidential issue[.] ... But we must avoid acts that rattle society," said Movahedi Kermani, the recent Friday prayer leader in Tehran, usually reflecting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's viewpoints. These words referred to the 2009 uprising. There is a belief in government circles that the audacious debate held prior to the 2009 presidential election sparked the follow-up uprisings. Friday's debate followed the warning, and yet what the candidates were permitted to raise against each other in this limited scope of sanctioned topics was enough to bring shame upon one other. "Last week the police discovered that Education Minister's daughter imported tons of Italian clothes and stored them in her house," said Tehran mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in response to a question on education. "This is while parents send their daughters to school in turns so that they can take turns in using their one set of clothes and shoes," Ghalibaf continued. The next jab was from incumbent president Hassan Rouhani.http://bit.ly/2r19pcz |
Lead Up to Iranian Elections Looking Rough
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| The Daily Caller With only days left to the so-called presidential “election” in Iran, senior regime officials are extremely concerned about the issue of security. Here is a glimpse provided by the regime’s top figure. “If we want the grandeur and sovereignty of the Islamic republic to be preserved and it remains immune (to the harms), all should participate in the elections,” Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said, adding “The only way to confront the animosity of the enemy is the presence of people at the scene…If a dereliction is made and some pave the way for people’s disappointment, the country will definitely suffer.” However, being the leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran is not concerned about any security threats such as those recently feared in France during their presidential election. While French authorities dispatched over 50,000 armed forces to establish security as the country’s population flocked to the polls, officials in Tehran are terrified of their “election” resulting in major uprisings similar to that of 2009. Iran’s police chief Hossein Ashtari had on April 22nd announced 300,000 security boots being deployed across the country. Of course, this reflect the number of police ordered to the streets. The mullahs are known to also deploy members of the Revolutionary Guards, the paramilitary Basij, Intelligence Ministry and plainclothes agents, and members of a conglomerate of other security and intelligence organizations. It is worth noting that the Iranian regime has 16 different security entities. |
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