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Rouhani’s blatant lies at the UN General Assembly

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, September 23, 2020—Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani put on another display of pathological lies during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. As is his wont, Rouhani tried to reframe his regime’s failures as achievements, its disparity as unity, its criminal officials as heroes, and evidence its illicit behavior as foreign propaganda.

But protruding from the body of lies was the Iranian regime’s desperate situation and its inability to deal with the multitude of crises it is facing at home and abroad. After four decades of crimes against the Iranian people and the nations of the world, the regime has come to its self-created dead end, and it is becoming undeniably clear that Iran’s problem is the regime itself, and the only solution is to change the regime.

A denial of crimes

In his speech, Rouhani shamelessly said, “Political freedom at home is very important to us, and as the most ancient democracy in the Middle East, we are proud of our democracy and we will not compromise our freedoms with foreign intervention.”

Rouhani uttered these ridiculous remarks while just two weeks ago, the Iranian regime executed wrestling champion and political prisoner Navid Afkari, whose “crime” was taking part in anti-regime protests and who was forced to confess under torture. Little more than a month earlier, the regime executed another political prisoners, Mostafa Salehi, for taking part in nationwide protests in December 2017. According to reports obtained by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the regime has issued death sentences for several other political prisoners. Thousands of other political prisoners linger in Iran’s dungeons after being rounded up during the November 2019 uprising, in which the regime’s security forced brutally gunned down more than 1,500 protesters across Iran.

Meanwhile, to justify his travesty of democracy, Rouhani tried to describe his regime and its allies in the region as the “people’s vote,” saying, “It is not right to respond to the people’s vote in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon with street riots and support for undemocratic processes.”

Ironically, in all three countries he named, the one thing that unites the people is the ouster of the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies. In Iran, the people are chanting, “Reformists, principalists, the game is over,” “Death to Rouhani,” “Death to [Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei,” and “We don’t want the Islamic Republic,” making it clear that what they do not believe in reforms or a solution from within the regime—what they want is change. In Iraq and Lebanon, ongoing protests are calling for fundamental change in the government and the ouster of anyone who is affiliated with the Iranian regime. And despite Tehran’s brutal and terrorist meddling in their countries, the people continue to come to the streets and call for change.

Rouhani also claimed that his regime has been falsely accused of building nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, countless documents obtained by the Iranian resistance have proven that the regime has been hiding its nuclear activities and has been planning to obtain nuclear bombs to further strengthen its hold on power.

The regime’s desperate situation

We don’t need to reiterate every lie Rouhani said during his UNGA speech to come to the conclusion that he was trying to hide something in plain sight.

The truth is that the Iranian regime is the perfect example of an authoritarian rule inching toward its end. It had already lost its legitimacy at home, but the threadbare image of democracy and reform it was showing to the world is falling apart. Its suppressive forces, which had previously managed to maintain the mullahs in power, are losing their effectiveness as the people of Iran continue to come to the streets and voice their disdain of the regime’s corruption and the bankrupt economy.

And Iran’s international allies are finding it harder to side with a regime that kills youth in the streets and hangs national champions who voice their opposition to their rulers. Those who do continue to support the Iranian regime are being called off for their complicity in the regime’s crimes against humanity.

And no matter how much Rouhani and other regime officials try to lie and twist the truth to their advantage, they can’t hide the elephant in the room: This is a regime whose time is long past due. The people of Iran want change. And they will obtain it soon.

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