Statement by Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran about the election in Iran:

“The Iranian regime's election is a sham designed to deprive the Iranian people of their right to sovereignty and their dreams of freedom. A rigged election is no election at all.

Iran's polling stations have remained empty throughout the day as the prospect looms of a mass boycott of the presidential election.

The regime is desperate for a high turnout but six hours after the voting began, many ballot boxes remained almost empty across the country.

AP — Iranian media say that a court has imposed a six-month publishing ban on a state-owned newspaper for its allegedly false reporting.

The semi-official Mehr news agency reported Sunday the suspension of IRAN, which is under the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is seen to express views close to his. The semi-official Fars also reported the ban.

Tens of thousands of Iranians will gather outside Paris on June 22, 2013, to reject the mullahs’ “election” and call for the overthrow of the mullahs by the Iranian people and their resistance.

The Grand Annual Gathering sponsored by parliamentarian committees around the world will host numerous dignitaries to discuss Iran’s election charade and Iraq’s shameful treatment of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) at Camp Liberty, freedom-loving Iranians who oppose the mullah’s oppressive regime.

Elimination of Rafsanjani from election masquerade is the biggest purge at the pinnacle of the regime, expansion of rifts in the rank and file and expedition of the regime's overthrow

The elimination of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as a candidate in the clerical regime’s election masquerade upon the personal directive of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was evidence of the huge rupture and extreme internal purge at the pinnacle of the mullahs’ regime. This was compounded by the fact that Khamenei resorted to another major purge by eliminating Mashaei.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday (May 24) that this week's disqualifications of would-be candidates for the elections in Iran were "based solely on who represents the regime's interests."

Kerry criticized the "lack of transparency" of the election process and said the handpicked candidates are "highly unlikely" to represent the interests of the Iranian people.

AFP - France on Wednesday condemned Iran's disqualification of hundreds of would-be presidential candidates, saying the Iranian people should be allowed to "freely choose" their leaders.

Ahead of the June 14 election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative-dominated Guardian Council winnowed the candidate field from 686 to eight, all close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranians warn against next massacre at Camp Liberty
Call for immediate transfer of residents to Ashraf and assuming responsibility for Ashraf and Liberty by UNHCR
Support for regime change in Iran, requisite for peace and democracy in region and world

On Saturday April 13, almost 2,000 Iranian and French citizens warned against the next likely attack and the fourth massacre of PMOI members at camps Liberty and Ashraf in Iraq.

Iranians called for immediate transfer of the residents to Ashraf and accepting the responsibility of Camps Ashraf and Liberty by UNHCR

On Thursday, April 11, Iranians, supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, took part in a rally in London to warn G8 about the continuation of the failed policy of appeasing Iranian regime.

The Iranian Resistance President-elect Maryam Rajavi has called on Belgium to give its full support to overthrowing the despotic regime in Iran, which is 'suppressing Iranian people and exporting terrorism'.

In a speech in the Belgian Parliament on March 27, she told MPs and Senators how last year the Iranian regime, with the help of its proxies in Iraq, forced the members of Camp Ashraf to a prison called Camp Liberty - where they were then attacked and murdered.

Highly vulnerable residents of the Camp Liberty 'killing field' must receive urgent protection from further deadly attacks, a conference in Germany was told.

The United Nations envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler was also to blame for exposing 3,100 Iranian dissidents at the camp to 'extreme danger', the conference held by the the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran heard.

Based on received information from prisons, two Kurdish political prisoners in prison in Orumieh, northwest of Iran went on hunger strike from the beginning of Iranian New Year.

Reports claim that the two prisoners are in critical condition.

Iranian regime's Intelligence Ministry so far prevented the leakage of this news.

Iranian regime has issued draconian new directives to prevent people accessing banned websites that threaten or criticise the regime.

The state's Cyber Police has given Internet café owners to comply with a list of 20 orders - or face being closed down and arrested by Iran's cyber police.

Camp Liberty residents have been 'deceived and betrayed' by the United Nations envoy Martin Kobler and should now be immediately returned to Camp Ashraf, staunch Iranian Resistance supporter and MEP Struan Stevenson has demanded.

The EU's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton needed to act now to ensure their safety before more blood is spilled, he told a meeting at the European Parliament on Wednesday March 27.