{"id":5803,"date":"2018-07-27T21:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2018-07-27T21:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T19:27:26","slug":"ncri-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/07\/ncri-iran\/5803\/","title":{"rendered":"NCRI the Key That Will Unlock Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NCRI the Key That Will Unlock Iran<\/p>\n

A look at global support for the one and only democratic alternative to the Iranian regime<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Iranian people took to the streets earlier this year to protest against the dictatorship ruling their country and set overthrow bells ringing for the mullahs\u2019 regime, the first question that came to mind was that what\u2019s going to happen to Iran, and which key is going to unlock the gates of this dark city?<\/p>\n

With people\u2019s\u00a0continued uprising and protests,<\/a>\u00a0a lot of pretenders came out of nowhere while calling themselves people\u2019s saviors, with many of them having their eyes set on the world\u2019s superpowers, the United States in particular, and the rest confusingly following others\u2019 lead. The true and most steadfast of them all, however, was the force that once again showed its strength in its recent\u00a0 Paris gathering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having recently held its annual gathering in Paris, the\u00a0 National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)\u00a0<\/a>is a combination of forces that have been seeking overthrow of the Iranian religious regime from the very beginning.<\/p>\n

The council\u2019s driving force is the \u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, an organization that has been fighting the Shah and mullahs\u2019 dictatorships for over half a century, thereby proving on the ground that they\u2019re fully qualified for leading Iranian people\u2019s uprising and running the country after mullahs\u2019 regime is overthrown.<\/p>\n

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Over the past four decades, the Iranian regime has repeatedly announced that the MEK \u2019s case is over. But after every anti-regime protest, state officials once again point their fingers at the organization.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the uprising that started seven months ago and has now spread across the country, mullahs\u2019 regime leader Ali Khamenei declared that the MEK were behind the protests and that they\u2019d been working on it from months before. The first conclusion on such remarks, however, is that they reject claims the regime has kept making against the MEK, thereby proving that the organization has not only grown stranger, but is planning nationwide protests for overthrowing the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s NCRI Gathering in Paris had a special meaning in every sense, with the first one being invalidity of the mullahs\u2019 regime poisonous propaganda claiming that the organization lacks a social base.<\/p>\n

State officials\u2019 remarks with regard to the MEK, as regime\u2019s main opposition, are so contradictory that a flow of imbalance and fear for the link between the uprising people and the MEK begins erupting as soon as they start speaking.
\nThat is the only reason why the regime has put a lot of money into setting up fake alternatives with the help of its allies, so as to marginalize people\u2019s uprising and their Resistance. But will this policy work for the regime? Not at all!<\/p>\n

Now published as a book, the MEK has gathered several lists containing the names of those who\u00a0 were martyred<\/a>\u00a0by the ruling regime. Close to 120 thousand of MEK, members and supporters were martyred over the past four decades. In addition to their families, relatives and friends, many of MEK\u2019s martyrs have also comrades in the organization that are committed to continue their path. So, the Iranian regime is right to be seriously afraid of being held to account the day after people\u2019s uprising and their Resistance prevails.<\/p>\n

Now more than ever there\u2019s a common international view that recognizes the NCRI as the only serious and democratic alternative to the Iranian regime. That is because a strong alternative needs to possess some necessary characteristics, including a clear record of its previous campaign, an extensive social base as well as a strong organization, and finally a transparent platform for tomorrow\u2019s free Iran. Without any of such characteristics, any alternative will be considered as being only on paper and rejected as unserious.<\/p>\n

In addition to participants to NCRI\u2019s recent gathering in Paris, many prominent figures, politicians and parliamentary delegations from five continents expressed their support for Iranian people\u2019s uprising and their organized Resistance while referring to the NCRI as a democratic alternative to the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

(Source:\u00a0 NCRI<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n

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