NEWS : IRANIAN OPPOSITION

By INU Staff

INU - On Saturday, July 1st, the annual “Free Iran” rally will be held in Paris. As the day approaches, an overwhelming number of incidents showing support for the event are occurring inside Iran, according to reports from the exiled Iranian opposition movement.

Pamphlets are being distributed, and a great many posters, as well as graffiti, decorate dozens of towns and cities. Prominently featured, are images of NCRI leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi, along with slogans which translsaying, “My vote regime change, down with Khamenei, our choice Maryam Rajavi.”

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Hundreds of videos and photos have been taken of these incidents, and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)/People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (MEK) have compiled many of them into a video.

In Iran, demonstrations like these pose a great risk to the people who participate in them. The NCRI/MEK has been outlawed as a “terrorist” group and the Iranian regime executes hundreds of people each year political and security “crimes”.

On Wednesday, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman referred to the NCRI as a “hypocrite cult”.

The acts of defiance in Iran “emphasize the fact that this regime and all its factions have no legitimacy whatsoever and that the July 1 gathering represents the will of the people of Iran,” the NCRI’s secretariat stated.

Preparations continue for Saturday’s “Free Iran” rally in northeast Paris, where more than 100,000 attendees are expected, including a group of prominent bi-partisan American supporters, politicians from European and Middle East countries, and tens of thousands of Iranian expats from around the world. Last year, a senior member of the Saudi royal family spoke at the rally, calling for the overthrow of the clerical regime in Tehran.