{"id":213785,"date":"2020-02-23T05:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncriranlive.wpengine.com\/en\/?p=213785"},"modified":"2023-01-22T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T12:17:43","slug":"maryam-rajavi-after-long-delay-astronomical-rigging-regime-admits-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/president-elect\/maryam-rajavi-after-long-delay-astronomical-rigging-regime-admits-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryam Rajavi: After Long Delay, Astronomical Rigging, Regime Admits Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_213786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213786\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Maryam_Rajavi_-_The_figures_announced_by_the_regime_after_long_delay_rigging_and_contradictory_statements_reflect_an_admission_to_defeat_in_the_sham_election\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Maryam_Rajavi_-_The_figures_announced_by_the_regime_after_long_delay_rigging_and_contradictory_statements_reflect_an_admission_to_defeat_in_the_sham_election.jpg\" alt=\"Maryam Rajavi: The figures announced by the regime, after long delay, rigging and contradictory statements, reflect an admission to defeat in the sham election\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Maryam_Rajavi_-_The_figures_announced_by_the_regime_after_long_delay_rigging_and_contradictory_statements_reflect_an_admission_to_defeat_in_the_sham_election.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Maryam_Rajavi_-_The_figures_announced_by_the_regime_after_long_delay_rigging_and_contradictory_statements_reflect_an_admission_to_defeat_in_the_sham_election-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Maryam_Rajavi_-_The_figures_announced_by_the_regime_after_long_delay_rigging_and_contradictory_statements_reflect_an_admission_to_defeat_in_the_sham_election-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Maryam_Rajavi_-_The_figures_announced_by_the_regime_after_long_delay_rigging_and_contradictory_statements_reflect_an_admission_to_defeat_in_the_sham_election-696x418.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryam Rajavi: The figures announced by the regime, after long delay, rigging and contradictory statements, reflect an admission to defeat in the sham election<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><u><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"NCRI-50\" style=\"float: left;border-width: 1px;margin: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NCRI-50.png\" width=\"75\" height=\"69\" \/>Iran: Sham Election, No. 10<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reports from Tehran, Ahvaz polling stations show turnout one-third of 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After two days of confusion and fabrication of bogus figures, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the regime\u2019s Minister of Interior, announced that 42.5 percent had voted in the sham parliamentary election. Even this completely bogus figure shows a 30 percent drop relative to the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<hr id=\"system-readmore\" \/>\n<p>This is while the nationwide boycott of this charade had already been reported worldwide. To justify the sparse turnout, Rahmani Fazli said, \u201cGiven the political situation and such issues as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-world\/27198-u-s-confirms-iran-regime-s-role-in-shooting-down-ukrainian-airplane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crash of the (Ukrainian) airliner<\/a>, the incidents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November (2019)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/27206-anti-regime-protests-by-university-students-in-tehran-over-the-downing-of-ukrainian-plane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January (2020)<\/a>, and other these circumstances, this level of presence and participation by the people is totally acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unprecedented Boycott, Confusion, Delay in Announcing the Results <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lfTWdjYjbA\">https:\/\/t.co\/lfTWdjYjbA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MyVoteRegimeChange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MyVoteRegimeChange<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1231570420186394624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This morning, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, tried to justify this crushing defeat. He said, \u201cA collective campaign was undertaken against people\u2019s participation in the election. On social media, a variety of entities used every factor possible\u2026 Since a month, two months ago, they said this was not an election, not a real election, the Guardian Council has done this or that\u2026 And this latest illness (COVID-19) became an excuse. In other words, they did not miss the slightest opportunity and did not even wasted a few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/maryam-rajavi\/14237-maryam-rajavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/our-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>, said the figures announced by the regime, after long delay, astronomical rigging and contradictory statements, reflect a reluctant admission to defeat in the sham election. She added: In boycotting this charade, more than 90 percent of the Iranian people voted for the overthrow of the ruling religious fascism and welcomed the slogan of Resistance Units that \u201cmy vote is overthrow.\u201d This crushing defeat will only aggravate the mullahs\u2019 internal feuding and their deadly impasse, expediting their overthrow by the Iranian people and Resistance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The figures announced by the regime, after long delay, rigging and contradictory statements, reflect an admission to defeat in the sham election. More than %90 of the Iranian people voted for the overthrow of the religious fascism <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JDcyE6YX67\">https:\/\/t.co\/JDcyE6YX67<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PaqBgXxacr\">pic.twitter.com\/PaqBgXxacr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1231638560878583808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The figures announced by the Interior Minister come as the IRGC\u2019s news agency, Fars, wrote that less than 20 percent had voted in Tehran. IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who came in first among the candidates in the capital, received only 14 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, foreign journalists who went to Iran and visited polling centers, albeit the busiest ones, such as Hosseiniyeh Ershad, reported widespread boycott, quoting \u201cresponsible officials,\u201d as saying that 15 percent had voted in Tehran and 26 percent nationwide.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> Regime\u2019s Sham Parliamentary Election Fails: A Major Blow to the Regime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PdItQwOlgy\">https:\/\/t.co\/PdItQwOlgy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MyVoteRegimeChange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MyVoteRegimeChange<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1231562707612160001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Based on the Interior Ministry\u2019s internal reports, the number of ballots used in Hosseiniyeh Ershad was one-third of ballots used in 2016. The number of disqualified and blank ballots were much more as well. According to a similar report from Jame\u2019 Mosque in Qods, the total number of votes cast was 288, or one-third of those in 2016 (790). In other Tehran polling stations, like Nabi and Nezam Mafi mosques, and Emamzadeh (Saint) Saleh in Tajrish (north Tehran) the turnout was the same. Reports from Ahvaz, southwest, to the Interior Ministry shows that the ballots used in each polling station in the city was on average 70 percent less than 2016.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretariat of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/our-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 23, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran: Sham Election, No. 10 Reports from Tehran, Ahvaz polling stations show turnout one-third of 2016 After two days of confusion and fabrication of bogus figures, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the 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