NCRI – The Iranian regime’s Council of Guardians rejected the application of 471 candidates for the so-called presidential election, approving only four. This once again displays the true face of the elections under the clerical rule which is nothing but a ridiculous show aimed at consolidating the state of ruling factions within the regime.
More than 99 percent of candidates were eliminated while they all had pledged their full allegiance to the Velayat-e Faqih (absolute rule of the clergy) system in writing. Many of them have been involved in crimes committed by the regime over the past 30 years.
The candidates whose credentials have been approved by the Council of Guardians are war criminals and have committed crimes against humanity, therefore, should be put on trial in international tribunals.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incumbent president of the regime, has been directly responsible for suppression and export of terrorism during the past three decades.
Mir-Hossein Musavi, mullahs’ former Prime Minister in 1980s, was one of the high ranking officials of the regime during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. He was responsible for the death of a million Iranian youth in the war and played a key role in export of terrorism and execution of political prisoners including the massacre of 30,000 prisoners in summer of 1988.
Mohsen Rezaii, former Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been responsible for suppression, execution and massacre of political prisoners, dispatch of Iranian youth to their death in the war and suppression of ethnic minorities especially the Kurds in Western Iran.
Mehdi Karoubi, one of the close associates of Khomeini and former Speaker of mullahs’ parliament, has been involved in the plunder of the Iranian people’s wealth.
The common denominator for the candidates is their involvement in suppression and murder of the Iranian people, plundering the national wealth, drive to acquire nuclear arms as well as export of terrorism and fundamentalism abroad. Therefore, the Iranian nation’s response to such theatrics, as it has been in previous cases, is nothing but a boycott. Contributing to such theatrics is tantamount to helping the inhuman clerical regime to advance its suppressive and terrorist agenda.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 21, 2009
