By INU Staff
INU - Once again demonstrating his hostility towards democracy and popular sovereignty, in an interview with Bloomberg News on June 19th, Reza Pahlavi, the son of a former Iranian dictator who was overthrown by the Iranian people rehashed a number of false accusations against Iran’s democratic opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran’s rebuttal to the interview, as provided to the Bloomberg News, is reproduced below:
Since the beginning of the twentieth century and the Iranian people’s fight for democracy and national sovereignty, they have been confronted by two separate dictatorships: Monarchy and theocracy. In spite of all their contradictions, these two currents are united on one point: hostility to democracy and the brutal crackdown on its advocates. Democracy means the end of dictatorship in any form.
In 1953, the Shah, with the help of a coup by the CIA and the UK’s Intelligence Service, overthrew the only democratic government in Iran's history, which was led by Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh. The Shah then ruled Iran by terror and suppression for 25 years.
Khomeini’s predecessor, mullah Kashani, was the most important internal factor in the coup and the crackdown on democracy advocates. In 1908, two years after the Constitutional Revolution, when the Qajar King, with the help of the Tsarist Party of Russia, shot down the Majlis (National Assembly), the internal support of the reactionary mullahs was led by Sheikh Fazlullah Nuri. These two mullahs were mentors to Khomeini and his regime and they were honored and praised by him on numerous occasions.
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