{"id":239725,"date":"2021-05-15T09:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=239725"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:55:46","slug":"irans-elections-2021-voters-stand-ready-to-reject-elections-and-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/irans-elections-2021-voters-stand-ready-to-reject-elections-and-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Election 2021:  Voters Stand Ready To Reject Elections and Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_239727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239727\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iranelectionsboycott.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iranelectionsboycott\" class=\"wp-image-239727 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iranelectionsboycott.jpg\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s Elections 2021: Voters Stand Ready To Reject Elections and Candidates\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iranelectionsboycott.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iranelectionsboycott-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iranelectionsboycott-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iranelectionsboycott-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iranelectionsboycott-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">graffiti on the wall reading: &#8220;no to voting&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today the registration will end for Iran\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/2021-iran-presidential-election-iran-regime-sham-election-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">sham<\/a> presidential election. The names of candidates are less important than the total number of ballots cast. Ali Sufi, one of the regime\u2019s analysts, explained the situation on April 21 in a newspaper interview: \u201cThe most serious rival of the presidential candidates this time is the people\u2019s participation [in the election].\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The people have cast their votes in uprisings calling for regime change, and their frustration was previously exhibited in the sham parliamentary election held in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the immediate aftermath of that sham election, the regime\u2019s state-run media acknowledged that well over half of all eligible voters had declined to participate in the process. This was a significant admission of failure, given that regime officials had worked tirelessly to encourage the highest level of participation possible and engineered a number of participations. They even went as far as to cover up news of emerging coronavirus infections for weeks beforehand. The extent of the failure was underscored by state media\u2019s apparent inability to facilitate a similar cover-up of the electoral boycott. Those outlets, together with entities like the Basij militia, have a long history of inflating statistics on voter turnout and staging crowded scenes at polling places, in order to present a false image of the regime\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That image was uncommonly important to the regime at the time of the parliamentary elections, which came very soon after the US drone strike that killed the regime\u2019s top terrorist official, Qassem Soleimani, as well as just two months after a nationwide uprising that featured slogans like \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d being chanted in nearly 200 cities and towns. As with a prior uprising at the beginning of 2018, plus countless smaller demonstrations in the intervening two years, the November 2019 uprising also provided an outlet for the public\u2019s condemnation of both political factions \u2013 the so-called hardliners and reformists who typically alter their power-sharing arrangements with each successive election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The dual uprisings were widely regarded as two of the most serious challenges to the Iranian regime\u2019s hold on power since the 1980s. This interpretation was strongly supported by the fact that even the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-ali-khamenei-suprem-leader\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Khamenei<\/a> acknowledged the protests were largely organized and directed by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>, the leading voice for a democratic alternative to the mullahs\u2019 dictatorship. For the preceding three decades, Tehran had insisted that the MEK had little real support inside Iran. But with the rapid spread of anti-regime sentiment starting in January 2018, this narrative became virtually impossible to defend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regime\u2019s ensuing struggle to save face was made all the more challenging in the aftermath of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/qasem-soleimani-irgc-quds-force-20200103\" rel=\"noopener\">Soleimani\u2019s<\/a> killing in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a commercial airliner near Tehran, and rather than blaming that incident on the US, Iranian activists once again poured into the streets to condemn the entire Iranian regime. Some even went so far as to burn public images of Soleimani, whom the regime had attempted to portray as a universally revered figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This stark contrast between public sentiment and the regime\u2019s propaganda offers some insight into how the Iranian people would have most likely responded to Soleimani being put forward as a candidate for the presidency this year, as was likely to happen had he not been killed. Now, in the wake of years of popular unrest and growing support for the MEK, it is all but certain that the public will have the same response to the candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi, the current head of the regime\u2019s judiciary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi, like Soleimani, is among the most brutal figures in the regime\u2019s four-decade history. As well as being close associates of Khamenei, both men established their credentials in part through crackdowns on the MEK and its supporters, both inside Iran and in the surrounding region. In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">1988<\/a>, Raisi was a leading figure in the \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/iran-1988-massacre-death-commissions\/\" rel=\"noopener\">death commissions<\/a>\u201d that interrogated and executed over 30,000 political prisoners. And in the 2010s, Soleimani oversaw multiple attacks on Iranian dissident communities, particularly in Iraq. Collectively, these actions demonstrate that the suppression of dissent has consistently been among Tehran\u2019s top priorities, often taking precedence over the basic welfare of the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Of course, it should come as no surprise to the Iranian regime that its subjects reject such priorities. But by all accounts, this awareness has only ever motivated the regime to put more effort and more resources into its propaganda and its paramilitary activities. It has never altered its political strategy, and there is no sign of it doing so ahead of next month\u2019s sham presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The widespread boycott of last year\u2019s parliamentary elections was a much a reflection of popular disillusionment with Rouhani\u2019s faction as outrage over dominance of the system. During eight years in office, Rouhani never oversaw any reforms and never protested any of the severe crackdowns on dissent. He was aware of and involved in, the order to open fire on participants in the November 2019 uprising \u2013 during which the IRGC killed approximately 1,500 people \u2013 as well as the plot to bomb a gathering of the Iranian Resistance near Paris in June 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rouhani\u2019s complicity reflects a system in which all candidates for high office must demonstrate fealty to the supreme leader in order to be eligible. For that reason, \u201cResistance Units\u201d affiliated with the MEK have been promoting a boycott of the regime\u2019s sham presidential election in much the same terms as they promoted the uprisings in 2018 and 2019. On social media and in messages posted in public spaces, they argue that by refusing to participate in sham elections, the Iranian people can \u201cvote for regime change\u201d and take a major step toward establishing a truly democratic system of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the registration will end for Iran&rsquo;s sham presidential election. The names of candidates are less important than the total number of ballots cast. 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