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On June 18, the people of Iran definitively boycotted the regime\u2019s election farce<\/a>.\u00a0The international community\u00a0should now help them to reject the entire theocratic system underpinning\u00a0its\u00a0rule. They can begin to do this by imposing sanctions on the\u00a0regime\u2019s\u00a0president and current judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi<\/strong><\/a>, and by committing to the collective diplomatic isolation of his government. Policymakers have ample justification for these and other actions because Raisi is a well-known violator of human rights, and because the process that brought him to power was an election in name\u00a0only, and\u00a0served only to enforce the will of a\u00a0dictator.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Since the beginning of 2018, the Iranian\u00a0people\u00a0have repeatedly banded together in great numbers to explicitly call for the ouster of that dictator and the dismantling of the system which grants him absolute authority over all matters of state in Iran. In January of that year, more than 100 Iranian cities and towns took part in a nationwide uprising\u00a0with\u00a0the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) on its frontline.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Iranian opposition\u2019s president-elect,\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Maryam Rajavi,<\/a> has long promoted a specific 10-point plan for a democratic future in the country, and the uprising showcased a level of popular support for that plan which regime authorities had always insisted did not exist. In 1988, the regime\u2019s founder Ruhollah Khomeini declared the MEK and other dissident groups guilty of \u201cenmity against God,\u201d and directed his subordinates to execute members en masse in an effort to stamp out organized dissent. The ensuing massacre killed over 30,000 people over just a few months but failed to destroy the PMOI. Nevertheless, between then and 2018, the regime always insisted that nothing remained of the chief opposition other than a weak and unpopular \u201cgrouplet.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This propaganda promptly evaporated in the face of the uprising, with the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivering a speech while it was in full swing and declaring that the MEK had \u201cplanned for months\u201d to facilitate unrest on such a grand scale. That unrest was ultimately forced back underground following thousands of arrests and dozens of killings, a number of which were carried out via torture. But afterward, regime authorities continued to warn one another in speeches and public statements about the threat posed to their hold on power by the organized, pro-democracy Resistance movement.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Today\u2019s\u00a0MEK\u00a0is part of\u00a0a coalition known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a>, which has long promoted Mrs. Rajavi as the prospective leader of an interim government following the mullahs\u2019 ouster. Each year, her 10-point plan is presented anew to the international community in the context of a gathering of Iranian expatriates and political supporters from across Europe, the United States, and the world at large. The latest such event is scheduled to take place between July 10 and 12 under the title of \u201cFree Iran World Summit.<\/a>\u201d As with last year\u2019s event at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, speeches will be live-streamed to separate gatherings of Iranian expatriate communities in various countries, as well as reaching citizens of Iran via a satellite television broadcast.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Free Iran World Summit 2021 #FreeIran2021<\/a> #Iran<\/a> — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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