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#Iran: Press Briefing: Mullahs’ Sham Presidential Election | NCRI FAC Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin to brief journalists on the election prospects, its consequences, and the nationwide activities of Resistance #BoycottIranShamElections #MyVoteRegimeChange
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1) In a news briefing on May 26, 2021, Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the #NCRI, spoke about the most recent developments regarding the Iranian regime’s sham Presidential election.
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2) @Mohaddessin: Elections in Iran are a travesty, a selection process, by a supreme leader who is himself unelected. Khamenei controls an unelected vetting body charged with filtering candidates.
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3) @Mohaddessin: What makes this election different?
• It comes after three nationwide uprisings - in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
• The regime is facing an explosive society. There are daily protests by virtually every sector.
• The economy is bankrupt.
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• The economy is bankrupt.
• The regime is isolated regionally and internationally.
• Factional feuding is escalating.
• A very potent organized opposition has become more active inside the country.
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5) @Mohaddessin: To deal with all of these, Khamenei felt he had no choice but to consolidate power. This is why the Guardian Council axed a loyal insider like Larijani: The Parliament Speaker for 12 years...
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6) The NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee Chair stressed that Khamenei dispensed with the “Moderate-Hardliner" theatrics, to secure the presidency for his preferred candidate,” turning this masquerade into “a one-man show.”
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7) @Mohaddessin: What does this mean moving forward?
The regime will become more vulnerable in the face of the looming nationwide uprising waiting in the wings. And when that happens, it will be far more intense and widespread than in previous years...
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8) …To compensate for domestic weaknesses and silence the disgruntled rival internal factions, Khamenei helped to prolong the conflict in Gaza…But even this hollow show of force cannot and will not provide a way out of the deadly impasse Khamenei is facing.
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9) @Mohaddessin: What happened yesterday should offer a valuable lesson to world powers. They continued to pin their hopes on illusory moderates or reformers within a medieval theocracy. But a viper never gives birth to a dove.
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10) @Mohaddessin: Assured of silence and inaction by the international community, the mullahs are confident that they can get away with murder. Just look at the events of the past month...
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11) … From Kabul to Riyadh, from Beirut to Baghdad, and from Damascus to the Gaza Strip, killings and explosions are taking place everywhere. Make no mistake, the Iran regime is to blame.
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12) @Mohaddessin: The time has come for the West to end its appeasement and adopt a firm approach. It should specifically:
• Echo the call by the Iranian people and condemn this sham election as illegitimate, neither fair nor free.
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• End impunity for the mass murderers who are ruling the country.
• Bring them to justice for the crimes they have committed against humanity in the past four decades.
• Stand on the right side of history and with the Iranian people in their quest for freedom.
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14) Who is Ebrahim Raisi?
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15) Iran: #MEK Resistance Units continue election boycott campaign in several cities
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16) The news briefing on May 26, 2021, Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the #NCRI.
Q&A of journalists
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