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Iranian Regime Leader\u2019s Deafening Chorus Is Fear of Decisive Election Boycott<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n Terrified of the decisive boycott of the\u00a0parliamentary election<\/a>\u00a0masquerade and subsequent to Wednesday\u2019s remarks by the regime\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the mullahs\u2019 leaders have come to the scene one after the other in an attempt to intimidate the public into taking part in this charade.<\/p>\n Speaking in Bushehr (southern Iran) yesterday, the regime\u2019s criminal Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi said, \u201cElection is an important issue. Whoever whose heart is in this system\u2026 must perform well in carrying out their duty in this regard. Whoever, with whatever motive, undermines this election, knowingly or unknowingly, wittingly or unwittingly, would be in the enemy\u2019s camp by weakening the election.\u201d<\/p>\n Mohammad Emami Kashani, the Friday prayer leader of Tehran said today, \u201cGoing to the ballot box is caring for the security and safeguarding of the country. The enemy will be looking at the turnout.\u201d<\/p>\n Underscoring that \u201cthe enemy wants to undermine the people\u2019s participation in the election.\u201d Ahmad Alam al-Hoda, the Friday prayer leader of Mashhad, northeast Iran, said any opposition to the election would be echoing \u201cthe arrogant enemy.\u201d In a reference to the regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani, he said, \u201cThat they say there is no competition in the election, but merely a selection, is regrettable for us. Some holding high office inside the country echoes the views of the enemy, and parrot what the enemy says about the election is a formality.\u201d<\/p>\n Recounting a series of mullahs\u2019 religious edicts, a cleric speaking before the main sermon at Tehran\u2019s Friday prayer congregation, said, \u201cNot participating in the election weakens the regime. It is religiously forbidden. For eligible voters, participation is a Sharia-dictated and divine duty. It is a must, which everyone should perform like prayers.\u201d While the mullahs do not allow women to travel without the permission of their husbands, this cleric said: \u201cParticipating in the election is not predicated on the husband\u2019s permission.\u201d<\/p>\n Nevertheless, so definitive are the prospects for the election boycott that when, in a bid to encourage voter turnout, an agency affiliated with the state radio and television broadcasting conducted a poll on its Telegram channel, despite the widespread of participation of the paramilitary Bassij and the IRGC, 82 percent said they would not vote. Fearing the repercussions of this poll, the state radio and tv immediately removed it from its Telegram channel.<\/p>\n Emphasizing that boycotting this election is a patriotic duty and the Iranian nation\u2019s pledge with the martyrs, especially the 1,500 who lost their lives during the November 2019 uprising, Mrs.\u00a0Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of\u00a0the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>, said the Iranian people cast their true vote during the November 2019 and January 2020 uprisings with chants of \u201cDeath to the principle of the velayat-e faqih, death to Khamenei and Rouhani.\u201d<\/p>\n The Iranian people have cast their true vote in the November 2019 & January 2020 uprisings with chants of \u201cdeath to the principle of the velayat-e faqih and death to Khamenei.\u201d They will boycott the regime\u2019s illegitimate election more so than before. #IranShamElections<\/a> #Iran<\/a><\/p>\n — Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NCRI-50.png\" "\\"NCRI-50\\"")
<\/em>WHOEVER WEAKENS THE ELECTION IS IN THE ENEMY\u2019S CAMP. SHARIA LAW DICTATES PARTICIPATION AND IT IS IMPERATIVE TO SECURITY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n