2017 "Election" in Iran - Interview With the Chair of NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee

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