Opponents of Iran's theocratic government are urging an outright boycott of its parliamentary election, arguing it is anything but democratic
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, told Iranians to"disappoint the enemy" by voting in Friday's parliamentary election, which comes during one of the most testing periods for Iran since the ouster of the pro-US shah in 1979.
The country's supreme leader has urged Iranians to "disappoint the enemy" by participating en masse in the vote on Friday, which coincides with one of the most testing periods for the country since the ousting of the pro-US shah in 1979. The crisis prompted some of the most potent protests since the Revolution and the ferocious crackdown that followed.
Masih Alinejad, a former journalist who has left the country and leads a campaign against the enforced headscarf for women, has issued a viral video on social media warning that voting overlooks the memory of those killed in the protests. Amnesty International has confirmed the deaths of 300 people in the crackdown that followed those protests, and some estimates are far higher.Tehran's admission that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner in January, killing all 176 on board, sparked more protests, at the very moment when the authorities were seeking to consolidate national sentiment following the US killing of top commander Qasem Soleimani.
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