Iranian resistance leader calls for 'another revolution' to 'topple' the corrupt 'dictatorship'
"The problem facing our people goes beyond the tenfold or hundredfold increase in prices. The issue is 46 years of rule under a brutal and corrupt religious dictatorship," says Maryam Rajavi
Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told demonstrators on Saturday that the time has come for a "another revolution" to topple the Iranian regime of "executions and massacre."
Rajavi organized a "grand rally" of Iranians for the 46th anniversary of the anti-monarchic revolution in Paris.
"Today, Iran’s cities are overflowing with protests and strikes from workers, nurses, teachers, the plundered, and retirees.
Tens of millions are deprived of basic necessities such as electricity, water, housing, and even basic food and healthcare," she said at the rally which was attended by thousands of demonstrators.
"However, the problem facing our people goes beyond the tenfold or hundredfold increase in prices. The issue is 46 years of rule under a brutal and corrupt religious dictatorship," she added.
The current dictatorship in Iran was the reason an uprising in previous years.
"The solution is clear—another revolution," she said. "A revolution to topple the regime of executions and massacres."