Mr. Rajavi: Iranian people will definitely boycott second round of election farce

In a message to the people of Iran, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance, offered his gratitude for their total boycott of the first round of elections for the mullahs' Majlis. He expressed confidence that the Iranian people will boycott the second round of the election farce even on a wider scale.

Ignoring the regime's stage-making and threats to coerce them to the polls, less than 10% of the eligible voters actually voted in the March 8 theatrics. In Tehran, the mullahs admitted defeat. Despite rigging the vote in favor of Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, the Majlis speaker, Khamene'i confidant and the top candidate from Tehran, the mullahs could not announce more than 890,000 votes, or the vote of only 14% of Tehran's electorate, for him.

But the mullahs cannot even accept the outcome of this sham and tailor-made election. So far, the Council of Guardians has canceled results from six cities, where candidates other than those supporting the ruling faction were elected. Results in seven other cities are left in limbo as well.

Mr. Rajavi stressed: The ruling medieval dictatorship is devoid of any legitimacy among the people of Iran due to the multitude of atrocities it has perpetrated against them. Thus, despite all the propaganda about this election farce, no one in or out of the Iran takes such a ridiculous sideshow seriously.

The NCR President said: If the mullahs are true to their words and do not fear the Iranian people's genuine vote and choice, they should display no opposition to holding free elections under the auspices of the United Nations and other competent international bodies. In that case, the vast majority of the Iranian people will doubtless be inclined to vote for the democratic alternative, the National Council of Resistance, and its President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi.

Mr. Rajavi reiterated that this election, boycotted even by factions within the regime, again proved the extent to which counting on the mullahs' moderation was without basis. He added: Under such circumstances, some foreign circles' talk of bogus changes within the regime pursues no aim other than justifying the continuation of extensive economic ties and of placating policies, such as critical dialogue, vis-a-vis the mullahs. These policies will bring nothing but disgrace and loss for the clerics' international interlocutors.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris April 15, 1996

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