NCRI – Immediately after the sham election and re-appointment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and simultaneous with the crackdown on the uprising by young people and the opponents, the ruling religious fascism has extended its repression to its rival factions and arrested many of their leaders.
Most of the arrested members of the rival factions previously held key positions within the regime for many years and were involved in making arrests, suppression, murder, export of terrorism and many other crimes of the regime. They are now being purged as the regime is becoming isolated and uni-polarized.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, had previously said Ahmadinejad's re-appointment would lead to a rise in suppression of opponents and large-scale purges within the regime. She had said that revelations of high-level embezzlement and increased factional feuding were a decisive blow to the regime in its entirety which would move the regime toward demise. This is the beginning of the end of the clerical regime.
The arrests are reminiscent of the arrest of senior officials by the Shah's regime in the final months of its rule. However, they will not be able to save the regime, nor will they reduce the level of opposition and widespread resentment by the people who have reached their limits from terror and suppression, and economic mismanagement and embezzlement and who seek the overthrow of the mullahs' dictatorship including all its factions.
The main issue in Iran is not the feuding between the various factions of the regime; it is the confrontation of the people of Iran with the religious dictatorship and all its factions. This fact was once again demonstrated with the decisive boycott of the recent sham elections.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 14, 2009