Ali Safavi - Now here's a scenario for a perfect election: Iran's turbaned tyrant, or the "Supreme Leader," has to replace the incumbent president, who is term-limited and is fighting for a bigger portion of wealth and power. So candidates line up to run. But some of those candidates are not favored by the Supreme Leader because they, too, are asking for a bigger piece of the pie.
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Mitchell Reiss - America's bungled relationship with the MEK/PMOI has led to missed opportunities and humanitarian catastrophe
The plight of the organized resistance to the regime in Iran, particularly the violent persecution of the group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI), has been one of the great, untold stories in international politics. It is a story of deadly betrayal, broken promises and political expediency. And that's just on the U.S. side.
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Firouz Mahvi - The Iranian presidential elections in 2009 remain a landmark event, with an unprecedented uprising shaking the theocracy in Tehran to its core and capturing the world’s attention for weeks. Few can forget the haunting images of Neda Agha Soltan in her last moments in the streets of Tehran. Now four years later, the legacy of that uprising is felt throughout Iran, as new elections on June 14 approach.
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By Lord Maginnis - The presidential election in Iran may be little more than a farce in democratic terms but it is nevertheless of primary importance for the country, the region and the world
Iran could be undergoing a monumental change in less than three weeks. On June 14 the Islamic Republic is holding an election to choose a new president. While the electorate has shown since 2009, at a cost of many lives, that it is ready for change, the process is farcical window dressing by the autocratic leadership who would have us believe that there is some modicum of democracy within their theocratic dictatorship.
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The upcoming elections in Iran may signal the start of a process that will replace the ruling clerics.
Baroness Turner, UPI -- Most people say predicting the future is a difficult thing to do. However, when it comes to predicting the political future of a country, especially an authoritative, dictatorial country, the task becomes rather simple.
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David Amess MP, The Hill - Iranians are going to the polls next June in what will prove to be a defining moment for the future of the mullahs’ regime. High on the supreme leader’s agenda remains the Islamic Republic’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, without a doubt one of the most pressing challenges facing Tehran and an issue that pits the Islamic Republic against the United States and its allies.
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Speech by Senator Robert Torricelli in the European Parliament
We are talking about Camp Liberty and Ashraf, but I think everybody in the room knows it is really about Iran.
What is happening in Liberty is pretty much a part of the final showdown for a free Iran. It is what is happening in Syria or wherever else the Iranian regime employs its terrorism. This is a proxy fight on that regime and it is one more reason why we, the international community, dare not lose.
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Martin Kobler has been 'fabricating information' and must be sacked for failing to keep his promises to the people of Camps Ashraf and Liberty, a meeting at the European Parliament on last Wednesday, March 27 was told.
Tahar Boumedra - a former advisor to Kobler at the UN's mission to Iraq - also warned that Camp Liberty residents' lives were in danger unless they were relocated as soon as possible.
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The United States must honour its promise to protect the residents of Camp Liberty and relocate them to either the US or Ashraf, a British MP has demanded.
David Amess also urged the United Nations to sack Martin Kobler and replace him with an impartial envoy as the only way of solving the crisis at Liberty and Ashraf.
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By Sid Ahmed Ghozali - I have met many Iranian resistance fighters. I have regularly attended many of their gatherings and meetings in many different European countries, and learnt many things from them.
I believe there is a common denominator between the destiny of the peoples of all Arabic and Islamic countries, and in this path to destiny, one can not ignore the Iranian factor. Without going into too much detail, no scholar could deny that the Arabic and Islamic countries of the region have been influenced by the evolving of the mullahs in Iran in a very negative way. I am certain that the removal of this regime in Iran will reverse this process and will pave the way for democratic changes in many countries of the region.
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The international community should act to prevent a catastrophe and ensure that the story of the residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq does not go down as tragedy.
Alex Carlile, UPI - The tragedy of the modern world isn't the lack of support for human rights but the reluctance of the international community to act before a catastrophe has occurred.
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