{"id":240357,"date":"2021-05-24T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=240357"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:54:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:54:35","slug":"iran-election-2021-regimes-fear-of-widespread-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/iran-election-2021-regimes-fear-of-widespread-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Election 2021: Regime\u2019s Fear of Widespread Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"elections20212405\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/elections20212405.jpg\" alt=\"elections20212405\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/elections20212405.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/elections20212405-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/elections20212405-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/elections20212405-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/elections20212405-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In recent months, Iran\u2019s state-run media have acknowledged that a low turnout in the upcoming <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/2021-iran-presidential-election-iran-regime-sham-election-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">sham presidential<\/a> election will challenge the regime\u2019s legitimacy.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-cleric-makes-veiled-call-for-nuclear-arms\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi<\/a>, one of the regime\u2019s top clerics, had said: \u201cDemocracy only matters for Western countries. For us, it is just a tool. People\u2019s votes do not bring legitimacy for us. In an Islamic government, people\u2019s vote has no religious and legal validity.\u00a0 Neither in choosing the type of political system, ratifying the constitution, nor the presidential election, the election of the assembly of experts, and choosing the Supreme Leader.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIf the low participation in the 2020 [Parliamentary sham] <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/iran-election-2021-state-media-acknowledge-economic-crises-amplifies-nationwide-boycott\/\" rel=\"noopener\">election<\/a>, which was unprecedented in the last 42 years, repeats in 2021 election, and people elect the head of the 13th government with low votes, the legitimacy of the system will be seriously affected,\u201d wrote the state-run Etemad daily on October 20, 2021.\u00a0 Etemad underlines that all the regime\u2019s \u201cpolitical currents, organizations, and institutions should look for a solution to prevent a low turnout. Thus, regardless of who from which faction wins the election, the most important thing is the voter turnout.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to the state-run Setar-e Sobh on May 11, \u201conly 16 percent of voters participated in the [2020] parliamentary election in Tehran. In other provinces, this figure has been lower.\u201d Meanwhile, many of those who participated would vote out of fear of not receiving their subsidiaries. There are rumors that if people refuse to participate in the election, they will not receive the Covid-19 vaccine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mohammad Sadr, a member of the regime\u2019s Expediency Council, considers low turnout a threat to the regime. \u201cIf <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-elections-2021-boycott-forecasts-20210524\" rel=\"noopener\">participation is low<\/a>, it is considered anti-security measures. The opposition, inside and outside the country, is announcing that we should not participate in the elections to undermine the legitimacy of the system,\u201d Sadr said, according to the state-run Etemad daily on May 20.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The state-run\u00a0Resalat\u00a0daily on May 20 also underlines: \u201cThe current situation targets the system\u2019s security and fuels calls for regime change.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime&#8217;s fear of the widespread boycott of the presidential election is the result of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a> and its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/t\/iranian-resistance-units\" rel=\"noopener\">Resistance Units<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/iran-election-2021-emerging-electoral-boycott-in-iran-reflects-growth-in-support-for-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign<\/a> calling for the boycott of the sham election.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For two months<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0they have had widespread activities\u00a0all across\u00a0Iran and spread the word among all walks of life such that today many Iranians openly state that they will not\u00a0vote,\u00a0and their vote is regime change.\u00a0Recently, a video on social media shows a mother who has lost her 19-years old boy asking people what voting has changed in the last 42 years?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" 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\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cI do not forgive the unjustly spilled blood of my Mehrdad. My vote is the overthrow of this regime. People, if you vote, you are putting your finger in the blood of your compatriots who were murdered innocently during the bloody November [2019 uprising], like Mehrdad and many others.\u201d said one of the mothers who lost her son in the November 2019 uprising. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cThose who go to the ballot box are complicit with those who did this to us. We will never forgive. Not just those who ordered, recorded, and carried out the order of murdering our children, but we will not forgive those who vote and participate in the elections. Their sin, and the one of those who stay silent in the face of oppression, is not less than those who killed and betrayed our children.\u201d said another mother.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">This is the sentiment of the Iranian society and, as the MEK resistance units have announced in their two months of activity, the Iranian people will boycott the regime&#8217;s sham elections. Their vote is regime change and the establishment of a democratic Iran.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, Iran&rsquo;s state-run media have acknowledged that a low turnout in the upcoming sham presidential election will challenge the regime&rsquo;s legitimacy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, one of the regime&rsquo;s top [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":240358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[129,197,198,494],"class_list":{"0":"post-240357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-election","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-mek-iran","10":"tag-ncri","11":"tag-iran_election_2021"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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