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Monday, 27 June 2005 |
 PARIS (Reuters) - The election of an ultra-conservative as
Iran's next president will lead to more repression at home and fuel
Tehran's drive to acquire nuclear weapons, an exiled opposition leader
said on Saturday.
France-based Maryam Rajavi, self-styled president-elect of the National
Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said the elections had been
rigged and widely boycotted.
The NCRI, which wants to oust Iran's clerical rulers, has in the past
given accurate information on nuclear sites in Iran and forced Tehran
to lift the veil on its nuclear program.
"There's no doubt that the Mullah's regime will emerge much weaker"
from the elections, said Rajavi, whose NCRI is the political wing of
the People's Mujahideen, an armed guerrilla movement listed as a
terrorist group by the United States.
"It will therefore step up repression inside the country, it will
increase the export of terrorism and religious fundamentalist abroad,"
she said.
Rajavi branded president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mayor of
Tehran, as a "terrorist and a murderer" whose call for national
reconciliation was as fake as a the election result.
"Iranians have no illusions when Ahmadinejad calls for unity," she said through an interpreter in a phone interview.
"What he means is that other factions of the regime should join him and
his supreme leader in repressing the Iranian people, help them export
terrorism abroad and achieve nuclear power as soon as they can."
Tehran has frozen its uranium enrichment program, which could produce
fuel for nuclear power plants or weapons, under a November deal with
Britain, France and Germany. They have offered Iran incentives to halt
and dismantle the program.
Rajavi said the U.N. Security Council should pass binding resolutions
condemning Iran's nuclear program and terrorism record, and demanded an
end western "appeasement" of Iran.
"The complete consolidation of power in the hands of the most extremist
factions of the Mullah's regime is the result of the policy of
appeasement some governments adopted toward the mullahs' regime, hoping
to encourage and promote the so-called moderates within the regime.
"We've ended up with a Revolutionary Guards officer and a terrorist in charge of the executive," Rajavi said.
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