Mr. Rajavi said: Khomeini's heirs have stepped into the final stage of this religious theocracy. With Rafsanjani's inevitable removal from the helm of the executive branch, the mullahs' regime looks on to a major surgery [in the upcoming presidential elec tions].
The mullahs' regime, engulfed in various economic, social and political crises, has paved a backward trend and this has initiated a new phase in the strategy of the Resistance inside Iran, Mr. Rajavi added. The Resistance's most important political initia tive, i.e. the election of a president for the transitional period of the transfer of power, is tremendously supported by Iranians in Iran and abroad. This was attested last June by the largest-ever gathering abroad of Iranians at Earls Court London, and also by the protest actions of the Resistance forces carried out in 62 cities across Iran. This support was also demonstrated in the publicity campaigns and protest actions launched in the past 1.5 months, by supporters of the Resistance in dozens of cities across the country to mark the beginning of the new academic year.
Reiterating that the National Council of Resistance has been fully established as the sole viable alternative to the mullahs' regime, the NCR President declared:
- The mullahs' military expedition and extensive intervention in the Iraqi Kurdistan, and the continued presence of the Guards Corps' large artillery group, called Ressalat, and the artillery battalions of the 31st GC Ashura Division in the Iran-Iraq bord
er regions in Kurdistan to undertake more missions on the Iraqi soil, indicate the regime's precautionary measures. As always, the mullahs are trying to contain the crisis on the other side of the Iranian borders before it explodes inside.
- Therefore, the first most necessary condition for the establishment of peace and stability in the region is to contain and prevent the mullahs' interventions and aggressions. The consequences of such meddling and export of terrorism and fundamentalism a
re evident throughout the Middle East, the Persian Gulf region and the Central Asian countries, including in Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Afghanistan. They must be decisively encountered on the international level.
- The National Council of Resistance has already declared its readiness to take part in any elections for president or the Constitutional Assembly provided that they are held according to the principles of democracy and popular sovereignty (not the Velaya
t Faqih), and under the auspices of the United Nations. The Iranian Resistance is confident of the support of the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people and especially women for the Iranian Resistance's President-elect. The mullahs' presidential elec
tion to designate a successor for Rafsanjani is totally illegitimate as were all the other theatrical elections of this religious, terrorist dictatorship.
- Boycott of the mullahs' regime is an international imperative. The policy of critical dialogue with the mullahs runs counter to the highest interests of the Iranian people, encouraging the clerical regime to continue and step up suppression and export t
errorism and fundamentalism.
Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad
October 29, 1996
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