Exiled Iran opposition group holds big Paris rally

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Source: Reuters

Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:57pm IST

PARIS - Tens of thousands of supporters of an exiled Iranian opposition group rallied outside Paris on Saturday to denounce the government in Tehran and last week's disputed presidential election.

Scores of chartered coaches brought supporters of the French-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) from countries including Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to an organised event at an exhibition centre near Paris.

Supporters chanted slogans and waved yellow flags and banners reading "In support of the Iranian people". They gave an ecstatic greeting to the movement's leader Maryam Rajavi.

"The sacred rage that has exploded in the streets across Iran is different from all the previous demonstrations, protests and uprisings," Rajavi told the crowd, according to a translation of her speech.

"The religious dictatorship and all of its repressive institutions must be dismantled," she said.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40476820090620

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the article talks about 90 000

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1. pics here

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5iytFsinp_T14Wj9MpF169YA3HtAw?size=l

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5heplfEKriUwtfKZ___ce2q4fthzw?size=l

President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Maryam Radjavi delivers a speech

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2. Yes! Lets see the intelligentsia at work here to get things moving.... exiled by choice to be free

And now that freedom may be able to expose the darkness into
the light.

Atlas Wept, and the tears washed the dirt away.  

(thank gopod for editors)

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3. Forget them -- they're a front for the CIA-sponsored MEK/MKO

They're the batshit crazy scientology-like Marxist-Islamic cult led by Maryam Rajavi that the US took under its wing after the invasion of Iraq and has been sponsoring ever since. The current Iranian regime's strongest propaganda move against the protests has been to claim that they're MEK-inspired.

These guys are bad news no matter how you cut it and there's nothing in this article to cheer about.