Berlin (EFE).- Thousands of people, most of them Iranian exiles but also public figures such as the former Spanish politician and former vice president of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who suffered an attack that he believes is behind the Tehran regime, today denounced the “false” elections held in the Islamic Republic and called for “a revolution.”
The day after the first round of the presidential elections in Iran (called after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter accident), between 5,000 and 8,000 people gathered in Berlin at the request of the National Council of Resistance.
“Elections in Iran are not elections, they are a comedy,” Vidal-Quadras told EFE. He was shot in the face on November 9 very close to his home in Madrid and, after a “long and laborious six-month recovery,” he said he is “doing quite well now.”
Presence of Vidal-Quadras
Vidal-Quadras has been attending the annual meeting of Iranian dissidents in exile for 20 years, but despite the attack he suffered, he wanted to attend the meeting in Berlin.
“When they have tried to kill you once, well let’s say that you always have a certain unease,” he admitted.
Vidal-Quadras explained that he has been trying for some time to make the governments of Western democracies understand that “the policy of appeasement, negotiation, dialogue, and concessions with the Iranian regime, with this terrorist, criminal theocratic dictatorship, does not work.”
“We have been negotiating, dialoguing, appeasing for 40 years and they are becoming more and more aggressive,” he said.
“We must change our strategy, we must strangle them financially, we must isolate them internationally, we must close all their embassies in Western democracies because all they are are preparation centers for terrorist attacks, and we must support the Iranian people in their “fight to free yourself from these criminals,” he said.
Islamic Republic
Vidal-Quadras, former president of the Popular Party in Catalonia who left to later become one of the founders of Vox, said that in his case “everything points to Iran,” which now uses “the technique of hiring mafias that are responsible for the murders.”
According to Vidal-Quadras, there will be no change in the Islamic Republic after the elections in Iran, because “the toughest, a real executioner” will be elected.
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and ultra-conservative Saeed Jalili will compete for the Iranian presidency in a second round of elections after neither candidate managed to secure 50% of the vote in the first round, the country’s Election Commission announced on Saturday.
The Iranian resistance in exile claims that the clerical regime must be “overthrown” and a democratic republic based on the separation of religion and state must be established.
