The true data of participation shows that society rejects the religious dictatorship that oppresses it and that it only remains in power through terror
PUBLISHED 06/27/2021 04:45
Vozpopuli – The recent elections to the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran , held on June 18, have been a mockery of the international community, a scam of the Iranian people and a very negative signal about the foreseeable evolution of the role of the Ayatollah regime on the global stage. To begin with, these elections do not meet the democratic standards considered correct. A body, whose members are appointed directly or indirectly by the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei , the so-called Guardian Council, has the power to reject legally registered candidates that it deems inappropriate. On this occasion, of the seventeen applicants only four have been accepted. Of course, no female candidates or believers of religions other than Shiite Islam are allowed. It was sung that victory would go to the one previously appointed by the Supreme Leader, the Chief Justice, Ebrahim Raisi.
It is interesting to read the statements of the Secretary General of Amnesty International , Agnès Callamard , about this character: “The fact that Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for crimes against humanity such as murder, enforced disappearance and Torture is a bitter realization that impunity reigns in Iran”. He also stated: “We will continue to demand that Ebrahim Raisi be investigated for his participation in past and current crimes against humanity in accordance with international law, including those States in which there is universal jurisdiction.” Regarding the judgment that these elections deserve to Amnesty International, it added: “Ebrahim Raisi reaches the presidency after an electoral process that has taken place in a highly repressive environment in which those candidates whose political positions do not coincide with the official ones are vetoed. ”.
More than 30,000 political prisoners
Another manifest falsehood concerns participation. According to the regime, this has been 49% of the census. However, hundreds of opponents have recorded 3,500 videos of polling stations in four hundred cities at different times of the day showing that they were empty or with only a few voters. These recordings have been obtained assuming a high risk because the Revolutionary Guard closely monitored that there was no testimony of the number of citizens who have gone to the polls. Some of these observers have been arrested and are in prison where they will surely be subjected to all kinds of harassment and mistreatment., that is if they are not directly executed. The voluminous and reliable information thus obtained yields an estimate of the participation of the order of 10%, that is to say, that the government has multiplied the real figures by five. This data shows that Iranian society rejects the religious dictatorship that oppresses it and that it only remains in power through terror and repression. In an interview on the Al Jazeera television networkAfter learning of his “success” in the elections, Raisi was questioned about his active involvement in the slaughter of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, a crime against humanity for which there is abundant evidence and which has been the subject of various reports by experts. of the United Nations. Not only did he not deny his responsibility in that atrocity, but he was proud of it and stated emphatically that he had defended “the security” of his country. This disgusting being will be from August, when the head of the Executive of the Islamic Republic takes office. Once again, the reverie that in Iran there are “moderate” and “tough” policy makers and that you have to get along with the former vanishes into thin air.
The regime has boasted that it has 60% enriched uranium, very close to the level useful for preparing nuclear warheads to equip its ballistic missiles.
The Iranian dictatorship needs the sanctions imposed by the United States during Trump’s term to be lifted to revive its bankrupt economy, to finance the terrorist operations and the wars in which it is engaged in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Gaza and to continue its nuclear program. The regime has boasted that it has 60% enriched uranium, very close to the level useful for preparing nuclear warheads to equip its medium-range ballistic missiles with which it can threaten the entire region. Both the missile tests and the uranium enrichment in a proportion much higher than that established in the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) treaty with the United States, Russia, China, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the EU,they flagrantly violate this agreement . Khamenei follows in the footsteps of Kim Jong Un in North Korea, using the nuclear weapon as the basis for his survival in power.
Unacceptable blackmail
Of course, Russia and China urge the Biden Administration to give in and remove the sanctions , but the most surprising thing is that the EU is also bent on giving one of its worst enemies the greatest facilities to amass an atomic arsenal, which it oscillates between naivety and stupidity. It is illustrative to review the list of countries and organizations that have warmly congratulated Raisi. Among others, Cuba, Venezuela , Nicaragua , Belarus, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah, that is, the most select of totalitarianism and planetary terrorism. Western democracies should correctly interpret the outcome of Iran’s presidential elections and not play the game of this sheaf of dictatorial, warmongering regimes hostile to our values and principles.
Raisi has made it clear that he will not tolerate any interference in his foreign policy, his domestic repression or his arms program. Its demand at the Vienna talks that sanctions be lifted offers no counterpart other than the nebulous commitment that it will not build nuclear warheads. Since its reliability is nil, agreeing to your request is equivalent to crumbling before an inadmissible blackmail . The United States and the EU must withdraw from the JCPOA, exert maximum diplomatic pressure on Iran, redouble sanctions, be inflexible on human rights issues and support the democratic opposition. Only a regime change will put an end to this threat, which until today has taken advantage of the weakness and strategic errors of the West.
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