Posted by
Benyamin Solomon on Monday, July 13, 2009 9:55:40 PM
By the National Council of Resistance in Iran [NCRI]
Monday, 13 July 2009
Massoud Rajavi welcomes Montazeri’s stance, urges him to reveal the facts to the people without fearing the consequences
NCRI
- Subsequent to the escalation of the Iranian people’s nationwide
uprising on July 9, 2009, Mr. Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Ruhollah
Khomeini's former designated successor, issued a fatwa (religious
edict) on July 10. While not mentioning the regime’s Supreme Leader,
Ali Khamenei by name, Mr. Montazeri called for his dismissal as the
Supreme Leader, citing a lack of justice, trustworthiness and the vote
of a majority of the Iranian people. These, he said, are necessarily
cause for the indisputable and inevitable fall of Khamenei from his
position as the Supreme Leader. Montazeri described Khamenei as an
"oppressor" and his rule “oppressive.”
For ten years (1979-1989), Montazeri was Khomeini's successor. He
was dismissed in March 1989 by Khomeini himself for protesting against
the massacre of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
(PMOI). Based on Khomeini’s decree, some 30,000 political prisoners,
the vast majority of them members or supporters of the PMOI, were
massacred in the span of a few weeks in the summer of 1988.
In a
statement broadcast by Iran National Television (Simay-e Azadi), the
Iranian Resistance's Leader, Massoud Rajavi, said Ayatollah Montazeri’s
fatwa to dismiss Khamenei as Supreme Leader was worthy of praise. Mr.
Rajavi added that Montazeri's dismissal by Khomeini because of his
protests against the massacre of PMOI political prisoners constituted
his greatest political and spiritual capital.
Mr. Rajavi added
that it is time Mr. Montazeri, 87, reveals the entire truth to the
Iranian people for the sake of his own salvation now and in the
afterlife. That truth, Mr. Rajavi said, is none other than
acknowledging that the rule of the velayat-e faqih (absolute supremacy
of clerical rule) was established by usurping the right of the Iranian
people to sovereignty and that the anti-Monarchic revolution was stolen
under the cloak of the velayat-e faqih.
Mr. Rajavi underscored
that just as the Monarchic dictatorship was doomed to fall, the
mullahs' religious dictatorship, which Mr. Montazeri himself has
acknowledged, has surpassed the Shah's SAVAK in torturing, slaughtering
and perpetrating crimes against the Iranian people, is also doomed to
fall and deserves eternal damnation.
Mr. Rajavi expressed hope
that Mr. Montazeri would shed any fear of Khamenei and Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and in doing so pay his debt to Iran, Islam and especially
the Shiite Imams. He wished Mr. Montazeri health, success and long life
to carry out this mandate.
Benyamin Solomon's note: Even the picture and the caption underneath comes from the NCRI website.