NCRI – Slogans chanted during the 2009 nationwide uprising against the mullahs’ regime in Iran mirror those promoted by the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), a senior mouthpiece of the regime’s Supreme Leader has acknowledged.
“We should describe the 2009 sedition as a sort of augmented version of the sedition of 1999,” Kazem Anbarloui, editor-in-chief of the state-run Resalat newspaper, which is affiliated to the Supreme Leader’s office, told the state-run Fars News Agency on December 26. He was referring to the 1999 nationwide student-led uprising.
“If you take a look at the slogans toward the end of the [2009] riots, you see that they have nothing to do with the [alleged fraud in the] elections and instead they all bespeak of a great conspiracy,” he said.
“As the events unfolded you would have expected to see slogans against the winner of the election, but instead they chanted ‘Death to the principle of velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule)’ and they called for an ‘Iranian Republic’ [in place of the Islamic Republic].”
“It is interesting that when pictures of the PMOI base in Camp Ashraf were published, the main slogan that they had written in large letters on their parade ground was that same slogan of ‘Death to the principle of velayat-e faqih’,” Anbarloui said.
He warned various factions of the regime to be mindful not to allow a repeat of the 2009 uprising to take place as the regime’s parliamentary elections and that of the Assembly of Experts approach.
