Iran’s elections are a facade – Linda Chavez

system, despite the facade of elections, is anything but democratic, says Linda Chavez, chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity.

"Its constitution provides for a 'Guardian Council' made up of six theologians and six jurists, appointed by the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader-appointed chief jurist, respectively. The Guardian Council's purpose is to ensure that any laws passed by the consulting assembly are compatible with Islam as interpreted by the Guardian Council. There is no separation of powers as we know it; it is essentially a system where one man rules: namely the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei," Ms. Chavez wrote on Friday in TownHall.com.

Fmr U.S. House Speaker John Boehner calls Iran elections ‘phony’

Iranian people’s message in elections: Our vote = regime overthrow

The Iranian people did not welcome the February 26^th sham elections and according to live reports from many polling stations, voting came to an end on Friday in a cold and spiritless atmosphere of intense security measures. Despite all the advertisement and various camps pouring money and investing efforts to lure people to the polls, which of course has roots in an obvious and growing power struggle amongst the ruling brass, state officials were extremely nervous throughout the day of any possible protest.

This year’s elections in Iran, like those in the past, was the scene of a total religious dictatorship imposing its hegemony as if it were blessed with credibility from God, forever to come.

Iran: My Vote is Overthrow of Islamic Republic

Another slogan on the wall of the city, “Our vote is overthrow of Islamic republic”

Shiraz: writing sIran: Slogan on the walls, “Our vote is overthrow of Khamenei’s Dictatorial rule”

Shiraz: writing slogan on the walls, “Our vote is overthrow of Khamenei’s dictatorial rule”

Iran: Painting Spray and Tearing Elections Banners

Iran: A young individual dissident in paint spraying and tearing off the Mullahs candidate banners in Shiraz.

Iran: Ripping off and Smashing Election Banners

   Iran: An angry dissident is ripping off and smashing the candidate’s banners in Shiraz Main Street.

Iran: clashes between heads of factions hours before sham elections

Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei used his last chance before Iran’s elections farce lashing out at Expediency Council chief Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and unprecedentedly terming him as “enemy of the revolution”. Khamenei once again referred to the “penetration” crisis and said, “One has to repent when the enemy (a reference to Rafsanjani and Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani) praises you.”

What was the reason behind such an attack, just days before the elections?

Answer:

Iran: people boycotting sham twin elections

Up to noon this morning Iranians have largely boycotted the sham twin parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections, based on a statement issued by the Iranian Resistance. Polling stations in Tehran and many other cities are vacant, according to numerous reports received from inside Iran.

The candidates of rival factions consist of individuals who in the past three decades played the main roles in the religious fascism ruling Iran. For example, the Rafsanjani-Rouhani faction has three ministers of intelligence, including Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri, Ghorban-Ali Dori Najaf-abadi and Mahmoud Alavi. Ali Raizani is a criminal judge who has played a key role in the past three decades in executing and massacring thousands of people in Iran, and the export of terrorism abroad.

Iran: My Vote is regime change

According to the reports coming out of Iran the real vote of people is: Our vote is toppling the regime including all model of Mullahs. This is a short footage in Park of Laleh in Tehran
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Iran: People say our vote is regime change

According to the reports coming out of Iran the real vote of people is: Our vote is toppling the regime including all model of Mullahs. This is a short footage in Park of Laleh in Tehran

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Iran Election: Interview with Iranian worker

An Interview an brave Iranian worker in Islam Abad (Western Iran) about the sham Iran election.
In his interview he insists that he will not vote for this election and he seeks a regime change

Iran: Factional clashes on the eve of voting

Factional clashes in northern Iran before elections

On the morning of Wednesday, February 24^th a number of Khamenei loyalists attacked the Rouhani-Rafsanjani election headquarters in the city of Ramsar in northern Iran, tearing their posters at the site.

 Tehran: protesting people tearing apart elections posters

People were seen tearing apart many posters of election candidates in Tehran, according to reports obtained from Tehran on Wednesday, February 24^th. This has become a method for people to show their protests in these sham elections. Reports show the posters were set ablaze.

Iran: mullahs sent students from Qom to Tehran to vote for specific candidates

Supporters of Khamenei’s faction in Iran intend to send a large number of student mullahs from the city of Qom to Tehran to fill the voting polls in favor of Jannati, Yazdi and Mesbah Yazdi during the elections on Friday, February 26^th. These three individuals are three of the main Khamenei faction members in Tehran running in the elections for the Assembly of Experts, and Khamenei is terrified they may not get the necessary votes.

Iran: I want to vote, but to who and for what?

On the verge of the Iranian regime’s twin elections, a heartbreaking incident took place in the village of Siahkal, located in northern Iran. This text shows how the Iranian people actually view elections in Iran.

24 February 2016

A teacher, wounded back in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and a loyal believer in the Islamic republic, told his students:

“Kids, the elections are near, write an essay about the elections,” he said. Every one of the students wrote an essay and read it before the class until it was A.K.’s turn. With very ragged clothing and a face revealing his inner pains, A.K. stood before the blackboard and began reading his essay:

“In the name of God…

I take my pen and write my essay as:

Why do we vote!?

Coal Mine workers protest for their unpaid wages.

 

Tuesday Feb. 23 - Coal mine workers of Minoo Dasht, south of Iran, gathered, for the second day in a row, in front of the local governor’s office to demand their months of unpaid wages.

In fear of spreading the protest Mino Dasht governor met with workers, Coal mine workers received one month pay and agreed to get the rest by the end of March.

Kurdish organizations have boycotted the elections

Kordpa News Agency wrote in its website that majority of the political organizations in the Iranian Kurdistan are boycotting the elections and have asked the people not to show up at the ballot boxes.

Iran: A young man commits suicide in Ahwaz

 

A young man from Ahwaz, the center of Iranian province of Khuzestan, by the name of Hassan Salemi, committed suicide on Monday, Feb 22 due to his unemployment and poverty. He was married and had a child.

Iran: Some candidates pay to buy votes

Bribery to gain votes

 Sobhani, candidate for the city of Qazvin, north of the capital said in an interview with the state Fars news agency that some candidates invest a lot of money to buy votes. He added that one of the candidates has promised those who show up for elections and bring their car he would fill up the gas for them, give them a good lunch and an additional 50 thousands Tomans.

Some other candidates have promised that they provide for voters one full year free use of Internet.

Iran: protests against sham elections in various cities

Election Dogfights

On Wednesday, Feb. 24, Khamenei’s proxies in Ramsar, at Caspian Sea, attacked Rafsanjani’s campaign center and knocked down banners.

Assault on the house of a candidate in Shabestar

According to the news received from Iran, home of Massoud Namazi, the candidate from Shabestar in Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran, was attacked at midnight of Tuesday, Feb. 23^rd. The attackers, whose identity is not known yet, set fire on his car.

Iran - Widespread rip up of election posters by people

On Wednesday Feb. 24, many of the election banners in Tehran were set on fire. Streets of the capital were scenes of torn off posters and pictures of different candidates. This was how people showed their exasperation towards the Mullahs.

Similar scenes were also reported from the cities of Karaj, Qom, Kashan, Khoram Abad, Boroujerd, Kermanshah, and Oroomieh.

"Prisoners are forced to take part in "elections

An independent source reported on Wed. Feb. 24 that the head warden in Gorgan’s central prison, north of Iran, has threatened that prisoners’ temporarily leave would be cancelled unless they take part in the elections.

The Feb. 26^th election is boycotted by a large number of Iranian people.

Amnesty’s annual report slams Iran for human rights abuses

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At a time of increasing Iranian-Western rapprochement following the Iran nuclear deal, Amnesty International’s annual report has strongly criticized Tehran for is worsening human rights record.

Amnesty’s 2016 report strongly criticized Iranian human rights abuse, citing the imprisonment of journalists, the torture of detainees and a high rate of capital punishment.

“The authorities severely curtailed the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, arresting and imprisoning journalists, human rights defenders, trade unionists and others who voiced dissent, on vague and overly broad charges,” the report said.

Iran- Execution just before elections

Iranian government which desperately uses executions to avoid people’s uprisings, simultaneously is holding a mock elections.

On Sunday February 21^st, Morad Ali Rajabloo, a 52 year old Iranian citizen was hanged in Gorgan’s central prison, near the Caspian sea.

Iran: political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi in Tehran sends message on regime’s sham twin elections

Fellow countrymen

These days various types of trumpeters associated to the illegitimate mullahs’ regime, whom are most definitely linked to the Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK), have restarted their street theatrics under the pretext of election campaigns. They are calling on people to show up and vote, at a time when those truly struggling for the Iranian people, and the true political prisoners, are all behind bars. These thieves who are seeking to gain seats in two different assemblies of this regime, have no intention to serve the Iranian people. In fact they are seeking their own profits and protecting their rule, which they have wrongly stolen form the Iranian people.

Two candidates ‘proxies attack each other with knives

Fight between the two sides in Koohdasht

Koohdasht, in western province of Lorestan:

 A fight On Monday Feb. 22 between followers of the two city candidates, in which stones and then knives were used, left some injured.

Iran: Candidates misuse people’s poverty to gain votes

Slogan on the wall reads, ” My vote, Regime Change”.

In Ahwaz city a candidate, who is already a member of the present parliament, pays 100.000 tomans (= $30) a day for distributing his election publicity. This is when Iranian workers are paid around 450.000 Tomans a months. This is also when lots of Iranian workers are not paid their wages for up to five months…..

Iran: “Elections” posters are torn off every day

Iran –People show their disgust for the fundamentalist government:

Tehran:

Resident of Southern Tehran reacts to the sham elections by tearing off candidates’ publicities.

Pictures below, taken in south of the Capital, on Tuesday February 23^rd, show people’s abhorrence for Mullahs’ elections.

 It is the same in east of Tehran. Infuriated youths, on the same day, do not leave any candidate’s poster or picture intact.

Khoram Abad, west center of Iran:

Reports coming from Khoram Abad signify that people continued tearing off election publicities on Monday Feb. 22^nd.

Boroujerd, west center of Iran:

People are uninterested to elections posters and banners. In the same course, on Monday Feb. 22, the youths in Boroujerd showed their anger by tearing off election posters of candidates of both fractions.

Karaj, North of Capital:

Youths on motorcycles took down posters and rip them up.

Around 8:30 am, on Tuesday Feb. 23^rd, a group of young motor cyclists took off and poured on the ground a substantial number of election posters and banners In Azadi and Beheshti streets.

"My vote is regime overthrown"

Iran: protesting continues in university with the slogan of

 "our vote = regime change"

Protesting against election in Iran

Iran: people are crying “our vote is regime overthrown”

Iran: bogus election 2016

By writing slogans on city walls in Iran saying: Our vote is regime toppling

Iran: Sham Election 2016

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“Iran: Sham Election 2016” — Iranian people say: Our vote is regime Toppling.

Iran Election protest 2016

Iranian people protest against Sham election of 2016 and writing slogans on the walls saying: Our Vote is regime change in Iran

Iran: Two candidates brawl on the street

People in the central city of Farsan witnessed, on Sunday Feb 21, Motazavi and Azizi, two candidates of this city scuffling with each other in the city’s main square in Beheshti Street. The fight was so severe that the security forces had to disperse people. The brawl happened once at 9 am and once at 330 pm. The two sides

Tehran – Protesting youths tear off election posters

Monday Feb. 22 – State suppressive forces arrested some young boys and girls for tearing off the election banners posted on the walls. The arrested youth were, simultaneously, shouting abusive words about the officials in the government.

Reports from different parts of Tehran indicate that the infuriated people in many parts of the capital have moved to tear off banners and posters, no matter of which candidate.

Iran – ignominy for the state run television

A move by Iran NTV to pretend that Iranian people are in favor the elections failed and rather turned into a scandal for the Mullahs. On Sunday Feb. 21^st Iranian state TV send its reporter to Tehran’s Azadi Square to ask people‘s opinion about the elections. More than %90 of the youths interviewed said they would not take part in the elections. They argued that poverty, corruption and devastated economy of the country leave no unwillingness to voting.  In response to people criticizing the government once the reporter said, “your answers will not be aired on TV”.

"Our vote = regime change, Our vote= Freedom”

Tehran: Elderly mother tears off “elections” posters

Tehran – Saturday Feb. 20 – An elderly mother at Tehran’s Baharestan square tore off pictures and posters on the walls saying, “You post them and I tear them off”. In different occasions people passing by praised this elderly mother.

Isfahan – sale of spray paints is forbidden.

Thursday Feb. 18 – All the paint shops in Isfahan (Iran’s second largest city) have received written commands from the government that prohibits them from selling spray paints till after elections. This command is to impede people from writing snide slogans on the posters and banners.

All over the city of Isfahan is full of anti-government slogans especially written by youths. The slogans include, “Down with Khamenei, Our vote = regime change, my vote= Freedom”.

Iran – People show their disgust to the Feb. 26 sham elections

 

Candidates for the so called elections started their final champagne on Saturday Feb. 20 by posting their bills and pictures on the walls. Iranian People in different cities show their abhorrence for the regime by tearing off the election posters.

Iranian people vote is….

4 days before Voting, Iranian people are greeting the bogus election

 by tearing the banners off the wall everywhere

Syrian political prisoner on hunger strike in Iran

Ramadan Ahmed Kamal, a political prisoner from the city of Kubani in Syria, held in Iran

Ramadan Ahmed Kamal, a political prisoner from Syrian detained in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Iran, is on hunger strike protesting authorities’ refusal to provide him any medical care.

It is worth noting that this political prisoner is from the city of Kubani in Syria. Back in 2008 he had mistakenly entered Iran with three Kurdistan Workers Party members and was arrested by Iranian border guards.

Iran: people tearing up candidates’ posters in Tehran on 1st day of elections campaign

The few number of agents verified by the Iranian regime to take part in the upcoming sham twin elections began their campaigning on Sunday, February 21^st by posting their posters and pictures across Tehran and other cities. However, a short while later people were seen caring less about the elections and paying no attention at all, reports from the Iranian capital indicate.

“People are passing by these posters without paying any attention at all. There are so many posters posted on the walls that are seen torn apart and lying on the ground,” one Iranian citizen said.

Iran: municipality agents harassing old man confronted by brave youths in Tehran

On Sunday, February 21^st at around 9 am in Tehran’s Tavoos Avenue an old man selling cigarettes on the streets was seen harassed by regime municipality agents.

The agents’ behavior towards this old man was so insulting that it instantly prompted a strong response from bystanders, according to eyewitnesses.

The regime agents were seen taking the old man’s handbag and insulting him. That was when people intervened. The agents intended to use electric shockers against two youths, yet a number of people intervened again and took the electric shockers and began severely attacking the agents. The bystanders, reaching over 50 in numbers, rushed to support of the old man and two youths, forcing the regime agents to flee the scene.

Iran Elections - Tearing Banners

A gift from Ayatollahs

Civil rights taken away, unemployment, and poverty have produced increasing number of women begging in the streets with their children. 

250 Kids live with their mothers in jail

 Asghar Jahangir, Iranian regime’s administrator responsible for prisons has said that there about 250 kids who stay with their mothers in jail. (HARANA News Agency)

Arbitrary Arrest of 15 Kurdish citizens

Agent of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence arrested 15 civil activists in Saqiz, a city in the Iranian Kurdistan.

According to HARANA new agency all 15 arrests were without any court warrant while the agents misbehaved with the family members of the arrested. Among the detainees were an editor of a Kurdish website and a former Asia wrestling champion, who is now a university professor, HARANA said.

There are increasing numbers of homeless people in Iran

one has to keep in mind that we are talking about a nation that is sitting on an ocean of oil. Yet as a result of the mullahs’ policies Iranian people from all strata are facing destitution, poverty and misery

Iran: Carton Sleepers

Carton Sleepers – (a new word Mullahs introduced to Iranian culture) = those men and women who have nothing but a piece of carton to sleep on.

Iran: Attacking a Wedding Ceremony

A video sent from Iran showing repressive forces of Islamic Republic of Iran attacking a to annihilate wedding ceremony in southern city of Bandar Abbas and arresting bridegroom

A minor Image of election status in Islamic Republic Regime

 Tehran – in Fear of another uprising, such as the one in 2009, all debates on the state TV have been cancelled.

Bandar Abbas - In defiance to the Mullahs sham elections, on Wednesday and Thursday 17 and 18 of February, Youths tore off election posters in different streets of the southern city of Bandar Abbas. In section 22 of the city, in particular, no poster was remained.

Tehran– guards in Evin prison have asked for prisoners’ ID cards to use in elections. In return they have promised that they will commute prisoners’ verdicts.

Guards in Gohar Dasht prison in Karaj, north of Tehran, have told the prisoners they can vote without ID card and only with their National card Number.

A candidate, in the city of Ardebil, near the Turkish border, who has cases of huge extortion, has distributed 500 dishes of “Chelo Kebab” (one of Iranian best dishes) among the villagers to get their attention and their votes to himself.

Friday Feb. 19 - An Iranian citizen in Shandiz, in the north eastern county of Khorassan, said, “People are indifferent here about the elections. Polling stations are in stagnant conditions.