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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 Iran, In front of me Maryam Rajavi’s face is everywhere. I met this sea
of people in golden yellow standing here in support of her. It is a
wonderful sight. By looking at Maryam Rajavi's calm, confident, and
compassionate face, you see the face of the future. She will return to
Tehran and so will you. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 At one point, Mr. Rafsanjani, a former two-term president, said
he was one of the nation's first reformers, and the room burst into
laughter.
New York Times
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
TEHRAN - Aides to Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani initially said he would
not be making any appearances in the final days before the presidential
runoff on Friday against the conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.But as Mr. Rafsanjani's campaign seemed to stall, he
decided to visit Tehran University on Tuesday afternoon to help drum up
votes. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 If Mr. Rafsanjani should win, he will play diplomatic games with
the U.S. and Europe. He will probably be even more skillful than Mr.
Khatami has been in stringing along the European triumvirate -- Blair,
Chirac and Schrِder.
The Wall Street Journal
By GEORGE MELLOAN
Whoever wins an electoral runoff and becomes Iran's new president, the
news won't be good, either for Iranians or Americans and Europeans
disturbed about the regime's quest for nuclear weaponry. The country's
ruling mullahs blatantly displayed their muscle, and vote-rigging
skills, in last Friday's initial vote. That suggests that they are no
longer interested in creating even the illusion of political moderation. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 These election results as the regime's attempt to tighten its
control and to present a united, hard-line front as it sprints to
develop the bomb under cover of the talks.
A rigged election, no reformist victory.
The Wall Street Journal
The most astonishing aspect of Friday's presidential vote in Iran is
not that the elections will go into a second round but that Tehran
managed to convince so many in the West that this is a real
demonstration of democracy. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 The recent report by New York-based Human Rights Watch against
the main Iranian opposition group continues to draw expressions of
dismay and astonishment from political and legal personalities, human
rights activists, and Iranian exiles across the world. The following
are excerpts of some of the letters sent to HRW and copied to the
Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran: |
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Sunday, 19 June 2005 |
 Participants say presidential election boycott reflected illegitimacy of regime
- Rajavi: Winners do not represent the Iranian people; they are Iran’s worst enemies
Yesterday afternoon, 20,000 Iranians and French citizens attended a
gathering at Cergy soccer Stadium, north of Paris, on the anniversary
of the disgraceful raid on the office of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran and the arrest of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian
Resistance’s President-elect. |
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Saturday, 18 June 2005 |
 Events"Did you hear that Iranian people said loud and clear
that they rejected the religious dictatorship?" Maryam Rajavi said.
PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - An exiled Iranian opposition leader
dismissed Iran's presidential election as a sham on Saturday and urged
foreign leaders not to recognise the vote. |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Exiled Iranian opposition group leads election protest outside Paris
CERGY, France (AP) - Several thousand people protested Iran's
presidential election Saturday at a rally led by an exiled Iranian
opposition group that denounced the vote as a sham. |
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Saturday, 18 June 2005 |
 Dear compatriots
Honorable French citizens
Distinguished guests,
We gathered here as yesterday, the overwhelming majority of the Iranian
people demonstrated their resolve for the overthrow of the clerical
regime through their decisive boycott of the presidential election
masquerade. |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Iran – election – statement no. 7
By 8:00 pm local time, the number of those casting ballots in the
presidential election sham was less than 10 percent of the eligible
voters. For this reason, the Interior Ministry extended the voting
hours. |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Iran – election – statement no. 6
Tehranis stage large-scale demonstrations across the capital, express jubilation over election boycott |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian
Resistance, congratulated the nationwide and victorious boycott of the
illegitimate presidential election to the Iranian people, describing it
as a reflection of a great national resolve to bring down the ruling
theocracy and establish democracy in the fettered Iran.
Mrs. Rajavi underscored that the mullahs’ election was faced with a
major wave of popular protests before the vote, which caused
unprecedented discord within the regime’s leadership and inflicted a
heavy blow to the mullahs on election day.
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Iran – election – statement no. 5
Today, simultaneous with the complete boycott of the clerical regime’s
illegitimate election, a widespread demonstration took place in Golha
(Flowers) Square, near Shokoufeh Square, southeast Tehran, and Vali-e
Asr Square on the intersection of Palestine Street at 3:00 pm. and
continued for two hours. |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Iran – election – statement no. 4
Reports by the Resistance’s observers until 2:00 pm, local time, from
33 cities across Iran indicated that people have decisively boycotted
the mullahs’ sham elections.
The reports, based on eyewitness accounts by the Resistance’s observers
from Tehran, Khash, Babol, Mashad, Isfahan, Tabriz, Hamedan, Yassouj,
Shiraz, Qazvin, Damavand, Karaj, Ilam, Kamyaran and dozens of other
cities indicate that polling booths were deserted and mostly empty. |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Five hours after the election, polling stations in Tehran, other cities remain deserted
Iran – election – statement no. 3
Eyewitness reports indicate that five hours after the start of the
election, polling stations in Tehran and other cities were deserted
completely. The Iranian people have decisively boycotted this
illegitimate election. |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Iran – election – statement no. 2
Reports from different Iranian cities indicated that in the first three
hours of the voting all polling stations were deserted in most areas. |
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