MEK Iran has shared the on their website the message of Toni Matarrelli, of the international conference of the Iranian Resistance – Free Iran 2020.
According to MEK Iran, in November 2019 and January 2020, in Iran there were two massive popular riots with slogans against Khamenei and Rouhani and against the Pasdaran Corps with at least 1,500 fallen and 4,000 wounded and 12,000 arrested. The shooting down of the Ukrainian Boeing with 176 deaths on January 8, and then the arrest of the protesters who protested the regime and asked for clarity on the case, changed the Iranian situation both inside and outside the country.
The news portal of the Mujahedin-e Khalq informed that young insurgents, on the festival Chaharshanbe Souri, which is celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz (the Iranian New Year), protested against the ruling religious fascism. The protests were held in in Tehran and in the other cities of the country, in particular Oroumia, Ahvaz, Qom, Isphahan , Tabriz, Ardebil, Anbaran, Abhar, Shiraz, Racht, Khorramabad, Dezfoul, Tabriz, Machad, Kermanchah, Lahidjan, Roudbar, Qods, Ochnavieh, Mahabad, Naghadeh, Khach, Delidjan, Karaj, Fardis, Chahriard, Doroud , Semnan, Sabzevar, Chahroud, Gatchsaran, Behchahr, Kerman, Zahedan, Darab and Andimeshk.
Maryam Rajavi, leader of MEK Iran: “boycotting the illegitimate elections of the mullahs is a patriotic duty and a promise of the nation to the martyrs of the uprising”.
MARYAM RAJAVI: THE FRACTIONATION OF THE REGIME IS INTENSIFIED, AND THE INTERNAL DIVISION IS DEEPENED. BOYCOTTING ILLEGITIMATE ELECTIONS IS A PATRIOTIC DUTY
Simultaneously with Tehran, demonstrations protesting the demolition of the Ukrainian commercial aircraft by the Revolutionary Guard have spread to other cities, including Isfahan, Mashad, Shiraz, Sanandaj, Babol and Lahiján (northern Iran).
In Tehran, protesters near the Hafez Bridge chanted: “Death to the oppressor, either the Shah or the Leader (Jamenei).”
On Monday, September 30, 2019, the US representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a press conference at the National Press Club of Washington, DC, exposing exclusive and top secret information from within the Iranian regime obtained from the Organization of the Mojahedin of the People of Iran (MEK Iran), which describe in detail the missile and drone attack carried out by the regime against the oil facilities of Saudi Arabia in Abqaiq and Khurais on September 14th.
NCRI provided detailed information on the resulting operation in the attack which involved the highest levels of the IRGC, who directed it at each stage. Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the regime, directly ordered the commanders of the operation to conduct the attack. The headquarters of the tactical command for the operation were deployed from Tehran in the province of Khuzestan (southwest of Iran) a week before the attack.
The uprising of January 2018 in Iran has spread in 31 provinces and 142 cities, during two weeks, with the slogans “Down with Khamenei”, “Down with the principle of velayat-e faqih”, “Reformers, radicals, the game is now over” and “Our enemy is right here; they claim it is America.”
More than 8,000 people were arrested and 36 were killed.
Eleven of them died under torture.
Mujahedin-e Khalq (The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, MEK Iran) was founded by Mohammad Hanifnejad, Said Mohsen, and Ali-Ashgar Badizadgan on September 6, 1965. This organization has a different interpretation of the Islam, which opposes the interpretation of the current Iranian regime. The leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, Maryam Rajavi, defines the regimes’ interpretation of Isalam as a mechanical and deterministic.
NCRI is a coalition of 540 and distinguished Iranian personalities and five
organizations of different persuasions, including the People’s Mujahedin
Organization of Iran or Mujahedin-e
Khalq (abbreviated PMOI, MEK). Mujahedin-e Khalq is the the largest and
most popular resistance group inside Iran.
Following the U.S. State Department’s decision on Monday to end all Iran oil sanctions waivers, circumstances are trekking forward at an accelerated rate and the mullahs’ financial channels are closing rapidly. This initiative seeks to deny Tehran the money this regime is now using to fuel domestic crackdown machine, ballistic missile development, clandestine nuclear efforts and a devastating foreign warmongering campaign across the Middle East and beyond.
During the past year, Iran has witnessed numerous anti-regime protests, demonstrations, and strikes from all walks of life, including workers, teachers, nurses and every other sector of the 80 million population in Iran.
People’s daily struggle such as high cost of living, inflation, unemployment, and government mismanagement resulting in environmental catastrophe has been the root source of protesters’ concerns during the past year.
At first, slogans were focused on the high cost of living and unemployment, but they gradually developed into anti-regime chants and targeted the peak of the ruling establishment in the country.
A big question mark occupied the mind of many, especially the ruling elite. Are Iranian people really after a regime change? Are the people who are chanting“reformists, fundamentalists, the game is over” seek the toppling of the regime in its entirety with all of its inner divisions and mafia factions? And will the actual demands of protesters and strikers who have been on the streets almost every day lead to the downfall of the regime?
To answer that, Mujahedin-e Khalq, the main opposition group in Iran, did a complete study at the nature of the protests.
Economic difficulties, poverty, and systematic corruption have endangered the right to live and other basic fundamental rights of millions of people in Iran. But the root of all these calamities noting the principal structure of the government is hidden in the political system in Iran. Therefore, under the surface of economic grievances, the protests and unrests in the country are directed toward the ultimate power in the system, the Supreme Leader himself.
When the government uses the element of repression and tyranny against the population as a tool for holding on to power and not a path to fulfill its obligations to the people, the way forward for the public would be political and eventually turn to protests and strikes to be able to gain their lawful rights. 40 years of empty promises have pushed the people to rise up and demand their rights.
Unemployed youth who are struggling in poverty and destitute witness a systematic corruption and lack of comprehensive program by the government, lose their hope of finding employment, and not being able to find any other means of expressing their discontent, are ultimately driven to the streets to protest.
The root of these problems is that the regime places its priority on the export of terrorism and fundamentalism to the region and the world in whole, rather than focusing on the welfare and security of the people.
The political nature of protests can be interpreted by the overall analysis of the statistics and the numbers of annual protests and demonstrations during the past year.
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