Saturday June 20 marks the 34th anniversary of the start of the Iranian Resistance to obtain the most basic rights of Iranians and to establish human rights and democracy. On that day, Khomeini personally ordered the Guards Corps to open fire on a peaceful protest by half-a-million pro-democracy Iranians.
From that day, the reign of terror began by the mullahs. But that day in 1981 also had a very political and strategic significance since it marked the end of the era of reformism of the clerical regime. The regime remains as ruthless and incapable of reform to the day.
More than 120,000 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) have lost their lives in the campaign to oust the mullahs. But what has the fight been all about?
In one word, the struggle is for freedom - freedom of thought, freedom of belief, freedom of expression, and freedom to choose how society is governed.
The MEK views freedom and democracy to be indispensable to Islam. The fundamentalist mullahs, in contrast, reject the concepts of free will and individual choice, and thus democracy. In their view, it is incompatible with Islam. They believe in the concept of velayat-e faqih (absolute rule of the jurisprudent), which invests law, power, and legitimacy to a Supreme Leader. Such a clerical system is by definition totalitarian because it cannot recognize freedom and the right of political activity for anyone other than those who support an Islamic state.
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