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File photo: destroyed campaign posters on the wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iranian regime\u2019s interior ministry announced the names of candidates approved by the Guardian Council to run for the presidency in the upcoming sham Presidential election<\/a>. The Guardian Council has purged all the candidates except for seven of the most loyal officials to the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
\nIn a statement<\/a>, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI), said that \u201cKhamenei took steps to consolidate the regime and maximize repression by purging presidential candidates who had participated in all of the regime\u2019s crimes over the past 40 years. This is a clear sign of the regime\u2019s crisis of overthrow and the final phase of the religious, terrorist dictatorship.\u201d
\nMrs. Rajavi also called for the Iranian people\u2019s nationwide boycott of the election farce.
\nThe Iranian regime has been noticeably concerned about the prospect of historically low turnout in the election next month. The sentiment is reflected in various commentaries published by the regime state-run media outlets in recent weeks. The daily newspaper Hamdeli, which is closely associated with a \u201chardline\u201d political faction, said on April 25 that \u201call candidates face a serious obstacle from non-participation in the election.\u201d The same article warned of the \u201csocial consequences\u201d of that non-participation being extremely widespread \u2013 consequences that are especially worrying to the regime officials in the wake of recent nationwide unrest.<\/p>\n

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\nIn December 2017, protests against worsening economic conditions in Iran began to spread from city to city, taking on a more general political message as they did so. By the middle of the following month, the protest movement encompassed well over 100 localities and came to feature chants of \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d and other explicit calls for regime change.
\nHamdeli made specific reference to the 2019 uprising<\/a> in its warning about the potential for a broadly organized boycott of the farce election. Other outlets have done the same, including Jahan-e Sanat, which emphasized the unresolved grievances associated with each recent protest movement. \u201cA large part of society has boycotted elections due to mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis, economic woes, pressure on people\u2019s livelihood, and officials\u2019 negligence regarding the social events of January 2018 and November 2019,\u201d it said in another April 25 article. \u201cGiven the status quo, a significant voter turnout is unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n

That quotation is particularly significant because it underscores the common threads running through both of the uprisings, the emerging electoral boycott, and the fact that a large segment of the population \u201chas boycotted elections\u201d in the past. The widespread expectation of low turnout on June 18 is based in part on the success of the boycott campaign that preceded the regime\u2019s parliamentary elections in February 2020. In that case, even official government statistics, which are frequently inflated in such matters, acknowledged that less than half of eligible voters participated, making it the most unpopular election in the 40-year history of the regime.
\nThis outcome was a testament to the Iranian people\u2019s escalating conflict with the regime. But more to the point, it was a testament to the organizing efforts of the leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a> (PMOI\/MEK). The MEK has consistently urged the general public to sit out \u201csham elections\u201d as a way of \u201cvoting for regime change\u201d and denying legitimacy to a system that bars all but the most loyal acolytes of the clerical supreme leader from seeking government office.<\/p>\n

The MEK Resistance Units<\/a> across Iran are currently hard at work promoting this goal. Public demonstrations, posters, and graffiti messages were identified in at least 250 locations in April alone, all of which strongly reiterated the notion that refusal to vote is tantamount to voting for regime change.
\nBased on the prevalence of that message, it must be assumed that virtually all Iranian activists are aware of the implications when they endorse the electoral boycott. Countless individuals have done so in recent weeks, including pensioners and victims of government-run investment scams. Groups of such individuals have taken part in loosely connected protests across much of the country, and most of them have come to feature slogans declaring that participants \u201cwill no longer vote\u201d in the face of persistent lies and miscarriages of justice.
\nThe MEK resistance units have been very active in the election boycott<\/a> campaign in full awareness of the fact that doing so could land them in jail or make them subject to prosecution, torture, or even execution.
\nIn recent interviews with satellite news networks associated with the democratic opposition, a number of Resistance Units have been unequivocal about their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice, if need be, for the fulfillment of that goal. Meanwhile, state media continue to merely repeat that concerns about the prospect of a widespread boycott leading to an uprising. Last week, the daily newspaper Sharq noted that the conditions behind that prospect are \u201ca great danger\u201d and that if they are not uprooted from Iranian society, the effect will be \u201ccrushing\u201d for the leadership of the regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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