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June 27, 2005
Massive boycott opens door to new challenges
SMCCDI (Information Service)
June 24, 2005
http://daneshjoo.org/publishers/smccdinews/article_4447.shtml
Millions of Iranians boycotted the sham Presidential
elections despite all tactics and ruses used by the
Mullhacracy and its two appointed run-off candidates.
http://daneshjoo.org/publishers/smccdinews/article_4448.shtml
Nor the fear created by the prospect of the victory of the
worst of the two candidates, who's a former hit man and the
current Tehran Mayor; Nor the promises made by a
'redempted' powerful man of the regime who's the head of
its Interest Council, were not able to bring a majority of
Iranians to vote. The first one, AhmadiNejad, who has been
declared as winner, is a notorious backwarded
Islamo-Fascist known to be a former head of Militia and
involved in murder of several dissidents; And the second
one, Rafsanjani, is known for masterminding the
continuation of war with Iraq, ordering the mass execution
of dissidents and looting of national assets.
According to the regime official sources an estimated
twenty five millions voters have participated in the
electoral process of the so-called June 24th run-off while
the official number of eligibles to vote is over
forty-seven millions. In reality and based on the regime's
voting laws, an estimated fifty-two millions of Iranians
should have the right of voting. The regime intended by
this way to reduce the impact of the massive boycott by
already reducing its margin of five millions.
In addition, various reports, including official, are
stating about a high number of irregularities and frauds
made by members of the Bassij force and other intelligence
circles. ID cards of many dead persons and mentally ill
individuals have been used in addition to multiple voting
made under the same names by the use of various
identification cards, such as driving permit, birth
certificate and national or service ID. These reports alone
are rejecting the validity of many of the twenty five
millions of vote declared by the regime.
Such conscious mass popular protest move has given the
final Coup de Grace to the reminence of the so-called
"reformists", "pragmatists" and especially to those
so-called Iranian intellectuals, such as, Massood Behnood,
Mashallah Shams-ol-Vaezin, Simin Behbahani, Abbas
Kiarostami, Abdolkarim Soroosh, Ebrahim Yazdi and many
other individuals who had quickly forgotten the past, and
declared their support of Rafsanjani. Already and coming to
the hardliners, Iranians had chosen to throw them in the
dustbin of history as early as May 1997 by electing Khatami
while declaring that "our vote for Khatami is in reality a
possible way to say no to the Islamic regime". Four year
later and according to official sources, over fifteen
millions of Iranians refused to participate in the 2001
sham elections.
The increasing boycott trend became more visible from 2003,
as a majority of Iranians showed their exasperation of the
regime's so-called reformists by avoiding to participate in
the City Councils Elections. Such massive protest took
place despite requests made by all factions of the regime
and individuals, such as, Mohsen Sazgara, Ali-reza
Noorizadeh, Ali Keshtgar, Darioush Homayoon or Hossein
Bagherzadeh who are well known for quickly changing side
and intending to continue surfing the popular wave. The
popular _expression of general rejection of the regime
showed itself better with the massive boycott of the
parliamentary elections last year and the people's refusal
to support the regime's reformists who had staged a hunger
strike against their hardliner counterparts.
The victory, this evening, of Ahmadi-Nejad which is due
mainly to the massive boycott of the 6th Islamic
Presidential elections will open, in days and weeks ahead,
the door for new international and internal challenges. On
the International front, many European countries had hoped
to see the victory of Rafsanjani in order to continue
business as usual while calming the US Administration by
making believe of possibility of changes in Iran; on the
internal front, more and more Iranians will automatically
rise up and resist against the future backwarded decisions
of the new President who's known for his goal to adopt
harsher social and political measures. Such cultural and
political clashes will boost the Civil Disobedience
Movement and the radicalization of the masses' secularist
aspirations.
Unless a last minute surprise or accident for AhmadiNejad,
true Iranian secularist groups will have a much easier task
to mobilize the Iranians who are rejecting the
Islamo-Fascism.
It's to note that Iranians will become also more inclined
to reject some of the so-called inside and abroad
opposition groups which are known for involvement, at some
degrees, with factions of the Islamic regime. They will
increase their resistance against any try by outside
sources to portray former founders of the regime's Pasdaran
Corp., such as Mohsen Sazgara, as the head of their
aspiration for a genuine referendum in Iran. Such
illegitimate try has started, since last November, by some
American and European think-tank groups in desperate need
of artificial project for Iran and by discredited Iranians
located abroad. The group has had a hard time to sell such
idea as most Iranians believe that a referendum should take
place only after the collapse of the totality of the
Islamic regime and in order to elect the type of their
future secular political frame.
The constant action of SMCCDI in denouncing such
illegitimate and artificial plans have resulted in being
boycotted by some American, European and Iranian
journalists or radio commentators or 'news' websites that
are more ideological than unbiased. Some of them had
promoted the unsuccessful www.60,000,000.com website and
declared that Sazgara is the head of the Referendum
Movement in Iran.
Some angers have reached the point that some wrong
declarations are made that SMCCDI is simply confined to the
US State of Texas while in reality many are aware of the
Movement's unprecedented and long dated impact among
Iranian students and masses, as well as, the international
opinion:
http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/cat_index_36.shtml
http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/cat_index_34.shtml
SMCCDI has been the promoter of many of the current
political debates in Iran and a front runner of many
actions:
http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_2565.shtml
The friendly support of part of the media have been a major
factor in the dissemination of SMCCDI's views and
guidances:
http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/cat_index_3.shtml
http://www.daneshjoo.org/farsi/bayanieh.shtml
Posted by steph1 at June 27, 2005 2:58 PM
