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1,000 candidates for Presidential election were deiqualified |
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Thursday, 23 June 2005 |
Disqualifying 1,000 candidates for Presidential election sham demonstrates clerical regime’s illegitimacy and lack of future
The mullahs’ Guardian Council disqualified more than 1,000 candidates
for the upcoming presidential election sham, approving only six as
being eligible to run
All those disqualified had affirmed their loyalty to the velayat-e
faqih system (the supremacy of clerical leadership) and many were among
the regime’s most senior leaders in the past twenty-five years.
Candidates approved by the Guardian Council are among the most ruthless
henchmen and criminals in Iran’s contemporary history and by any
standard have committed crimes against humanity.
The leading candidate, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has played the key
role in the atrocities perpetrated by the clerical regime, including
the execution of 120,000 political prisoners, the assassination of
dissidents abroad and the chain murders of the 1990s in Iran. Former
Majlis Speaker Mehdi Karrubi was among Khomeini’s confidants and openly
endorsed Khomeini’s fatwa to massacre more than 30,000 political
prisoners in 1988.
The other four candidates, the Revolutionary Guards ex-commander in
chief Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezai, former head of the state radio and
television Brig. Gen. Ali Larijani, former commander of the State
Security Forces Brig. Gen. Mohammad Baser Qablibaf, and Tehran’s mayor
Brig. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have long records in murdering and cracking
down on the Iranian people.
Reiterating that elections in Iran were merely a means to solidify the
reign of religious fascism, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect
Maryam Rajavi said, “The election farce is neither free, nor fair, nor
legitimate.” “The Iranian nation rejects and boycotts election
masquerades by the velayat-e faqih regime,” she added, calling on the
international community and all governments around the world to declare
the presidential election sham illegitimate and null and stand with the
demands of the Iranian people for democracy and freedom.
Pointing to the candidates’ records, Mrs. Rajavi said, “Those who would
try to portray Rafsanjani as pragmatic, or call Revolutionary Guards
commanders as moderates in order to justify the policy of appeasement,
are not merely mollifying the regime. They are staining their hands
with the blood of the Iranian nation. No one can any longer find any
justification for continuing the policy of appeasement or playing the
reform game within this regime.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 23, 2005 |
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