Reports from Iran Confirm Widespread Boycott of the Farce of Parliamentary Elections of the Regime

Reports obtained by the network of the Organization Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK Iran confirm the general boycott of the Iranian people to the farce of parliamentary elections of the regime. This is a positive response to the call made by Ms. Maryam Rajavi, elected president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) to boycott the farce of parliamentary elections of the regime.

 

 The MEK Iran network reports confirm that until noon, local time, four hours after the start of the vote, there were only a few voters in the polling stations. In an attempt to show large crowds, the regime has been transporting the personnel of the Revolutionary Guard, the Army and the State Security Forces to several polling stations.

In Tehran, the capital, at 10:00 am local time, Shariati High School, which is generally one of the busiest polling stations, only received four voters. Another report from the polling station in Mesgar Abad shows that nobody had gone to vote yet.

Despite the claims of the mullahs, the Iranians in Sistan and Baluchistan province are boycotting the electoral farce of the regime.

The official ISNA news agency quoted Mahmoud Vaezi, chief of staff of the regime's president, Hasan Rouhani, saying there has been great voter participation and that the government is monitoring the situation through online portals. “As the leadership had wanted, it seems that people come to the polling stations in large numbers.”

A Mashhad journalist says: “Down the mullahs government. Boycott the elections. They have lined up taxis to force drivers to vote. These same drivers have been protesting their poor living and working conditions every day. ” However, the leaders and organs of the Iranian regime of all factions and groups, terrified by a generalized boycott, have been appealing to the participation of the people in the farce of elections.

Today, in casting their vote, the regime's leaders, including the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the president of the Hasan Rouhani regime, the interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the president of the Parliament, Ali Larijani, and the foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, again appealed to the people to vote.

Ms. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said: “These calls, which reflect the regime's fear of the generalized boycott, only increase the people's repulsion towards these illegitimate elections and strengthen the intention to boycott this farce”.”With its chants of 'death at the beginning of the clergy's command and death to Khamenei' during the uprisings of November 2019 and January 2020, the Iranian people have voted for the overthrow of the regime and consider the boycott electoral a patriotic duty and an honor to the martyrs,” he added.

“The boycott of the sham elections is a patriotic duty and the bond of the Iranian people with their martyrs, especially the over 1,500 martyrs of the November uprising,” twitted Maryam Rajavi, spouse of the founder of NCRI, Massoud Rajavi, on February 18, 2020.

The regime's game of using the so-called "moderate" faction, which was guilty of all the crimes of the regime, to manipulate the people and the international community of believing that there is some connection between the Iranian regime and democracy, was once rejected more during the protests when people sang "reformist, conservative, the game is over". Khamenei's massive purge against the rival faction confirmed this truth once again.

In Tehran, voting has been very scarce. Shariati High School, which is generally one of the busiest polling stations, only received four hours at 10:00 a.m. local time, as reported by MEK Iran activists. In Noshahr, Mazandaran province, the polls were almost empty. “The urn at Amir Kabir High School was almost empty at 8:45 a.m. No one had come to vote. But the regime has the area surrounded by security forces for fear of protests,”said a local.

A local report by Rasht, from Shahid Beheshti High School, Azadegan Street, says: “The place is full of civilian-dressed agents so people can't record videos”.

The NCRI communiqué No. 6 on the electoral farce in Iran states: “According to reports from thousands of polling stations across the country, including Tehran, Karaj, Shahriar, Robat Karim, Islamshahr, Qods, Isfahan, Baharestan, Najafabad, Golpaygan, Zarinshahr, Yazdanshahr, Lamerd, Dasht-e Arjan, Firouzabad, Zahedan, Sonqor, Neyshabour, Mashhad, Shahr-e Kord, Kazeroun, Dalahou, Hamedan, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Alvand, Na'ein, Yazd, Yassouj, Malayer, Rasht, Sari, Nowshahr, Babol, Babolsar, Tabriz, Miyaneh, Daylaman, Dehdasht, Shush, Behbahan, Bukan, Azadshahr, Khorramabad, Kouhdasht, Semnan, Qeshm Island and Bandar Kangan, the Iranian people have completely boycotted the electoral farce of the mullahs.”

Simply put, the regime's attempts to use its false parliamentary elections as a means to legitimize its government have failed. On the other hand, it also confirms the will of the Iranian people to overthrow the regime.