Iran: 100,000 gather to
call for urgent end to ‘religious dictatorship’
In an address frequently peppered by rapturous
applause, she said that in the year since the current regime signed a nuclear
agreement with world powers in order for sanctions to be eased, it had failed
to find a way out of the crisis engulfing it, and had plunged into the quagmire
of the Syrian war.
Repression and discrimination were rife, along
with arrests, executions and the shelling of Kurdish villages.
Rajavi said the only real solution to Iran’s
troubles was to overthrow the current “religious dictatorship”.
“We offer a solution that is the only effective
option and the most indispensable and attainable solution: the right of the
Iranian people to overthrow the religious dictatorship and attain freedom and
democracy must be recognised,” she said, adding that it would also signal a
breakthrough for Iran and the world.
“Many elected
representatives of people of people
throughout the world, as well as senior US, European, Australian, Canadian and
Asian personalities and dignitaries – who support freedom and democracy in Iran
– proudly attest to this reality.”
Rajavi added that the mullahs of Iran and Daesh
were reading from the same script.
“Both espouse a similar reactionary ideology
which is diametrically opposed to the pristine teachings of Islam,” she said.
“They have a similar modus operandi when it
comes to barbarity and savagery. They need to rely on one another to survive.
“For this reason, so long as the regime’s
occupation of Syria, Iraq and Yemen continues, we cannot confront Daesh
effectively.”
Rajavi’s 10-point plan for the future of Iran
calls for full democracy, equality for men and women, abolition of the death
penalty and the separation of church and state.
She added: “We will not relent until the day
when Iranians of all persuasions and divergences can join hands to hoist the
flag of victory, the flag of a free and democratic Iran.”
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