Iran dissidents blast ‘sham’ election after hardliner tied to executions becomes President

Iranian dissidents on Saturday slammed what they described as a "sham" election, after the election of a notorious hardliner who was tied to mass executions was elected president of the theocratic regime. Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s judiciary chief, won the country’s presidential election in a landslide -- but it was a vote characterized by an extremely low turnout after calls for a boycott over what critics described as a rigged election to push Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s protégé into power.

FOX-NEWS – Iranian dissidents on Saturday slammed what they described as a “sham” election, after the election of a notorious hardliner who was tied to mass executions was elected president of the theocratic regime.

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s judiciary chief, won the country’s presidential election in a landslide — but it was a vote characterized by an extremely low turnout after calls for a boycott over what critics described as a rigged election to push Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s protégé into power.
“Despite astronomical rigging and falsifying the vote tally, the dimensions of the popular boycott were so extensive that the regime succumbed to announcing a lower than 49 percent turnout, plainly admitting that the majority of Iranian people boycotted the sham election and testified to its illegitimacy,” the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI) President-elect Maryam Rajavi said in a statement.
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