The country's largest group representing Iranian-Americans is calling for new elections in Iran, as that country's uprising stretches into its eighth day of protests and violence.
"The National Iranian American Council strongly condemns the government of Iran's escalating violence against demonstrators and reiterates its demand that the government cease using lethal force against unarmed protesters and bystanders," NIAC said in a statement released late Saturday.
"The only plausible way to end the violence is for new elections to be held with independent monitors ensuring its fairness," the statement continues. "Such elections would be consistent with the Iranian constitution."
The complete statement follows:
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the largest organization of Iranian-Americans in the US, released the following statement today in response to ongoing violence in Iran:
"The National Iranian American Council strongly condemns the government of Iran's escalating violence against demonstrators and reiterates its demand that the government cease using lethal force against unarmed protesters and bystanders.
"The only plausible way to end the violence is for new elections to be held with independent monitors ensuring its fairness. Such elections would be consistent with the Iranian constitution.
"We support President Obama's decision not to take sides in the disputed election, particularly in the absence of any candidate calling upon him to do so. At the same time, the White House needs to speak vociferously against the bloodshed taking place before our eyes.
"While the Iranian people's struggle for democracy is not new, Iran will never find internal or external balance unless the human rights, will, and needs of its people are met."
Trita Parsi, president of NIAC, said: "If action is not taken now, the violence will consume everyone."
Dokhi Fassihian, a member of the NIAC board, added: "The Iranian American community and all Iranians in the Diaspora are shocked and devastated by the brutality that has been committed against the Iranian people in the past week. Images being sent out of the country clearly indicate the severity of the situation and demand the world's attention."
-- Daniel Tencer
"The National Iranian American Council...."
An NGO with financial links to the NED.
Propagandists of the "color revolution" variety.
This disgusting organisation have no rights to vote actually have no rights to exist; they are banned by the Iranian people and listed as a terror group in USA and elsewhere.
NIAC is another branch of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and sometimes to be known as National Liberation Army of Iran (the military wing of the National Council of Resistance of Iran).
Orlly? A "Terror Group" funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.. ?
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There is no reason to assume that Ahmendinejad did Not win! The MSM is just stating it as fact with no basis. READ PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS article: "PSYOPS and THE WANING POWER OF TRUTH". How many times will the US be LIED to?
We know all about conseratives stealing elections iran, and look what 8 YEARS DID TO THE WORLD..We had the CIA and state run media state before the polls were closed, even reversing florida vote and supremes stopping the vote count..It is good that you refuse to let them do it to you..
This uprising is fueled by the CIA, the Mossad and the Shah's family. The CIA and Mossad agents must be found in Iran and removed and by removing them, the people of Persia will be happy again, just like before the Election. Persia forever.
First, even before the vote was final, Mousavi and his supporters declared victory, based on little more than 'feeling' and a preliminary memo from the Interior Ministry which was never confirmed and probably an invention.
Then they asked for a re-count.
Then when it was obviously they wouldn't win a re-count, they asked for a new election.
It's looking like Operation Ajax 2 complete with provocative 'shootings' by security forces to keep the protests up...I don't think Mousavi wants to be a martyr, but he is more than happy to encourage other people to do so.
iran...just like us in 2000...there will be NO recounts or do-overs...we can`t afford to lose another, excuse for war boogeyman, now that bin laden is dead...
I found two videos of men filling out multiple Iranian presidential ballots, and posted them to my blog at http://jigsawnovich.blogspot.com. This may be documentation of election fraud.
What a sick fcuking joke on the entire world the US policies in the middle east have become!
Maybe we should spend this much effort getting free and fair elections to bring Democracy to Kuwait? After all it has been twenty years since we urgently needed to spend billions freeing them from tyranny by bringing Democracy there. But we got our war, so now they are off the radar.
This out of control corporate media feeding frenzy is all just a massive propaganda effort to prepare Americans and Europeans for war on Iran. Be it Israel, the UK or the US or all of the above......war will come to Iran.
Has anyone seen such focused obsessive nonstop coverage of any country like this since Iraq in 2003? No.
But we see it now, with so called liberal news sources prominently seated on the bandwagaon for war. The fools who still can choke down the Obama kool aid must be kept in line with steady propaganda.
It appears they may be even more stupid and willing to blindly follow their leader to war than Bush lovers were. Raw is helping them.
ever wonder why "almost" every time there is a crisis in the world somewhere there is some us based group of citizens or descendants from that area demanding action? these people are nothing but front groups, and paid agitators. funny i don't hear anything about the situation in peru, where as in so many places around the world people are fighting the forces of globalization from destroying the ancestral lands from exploitation. another color coded revolution for regime change. regime changes lead to instability, is this what the world needs more of? imagine a world becoming even more unstable. with the united states weaker because of a collapsing dollar, and it's loss of reserve currency status, in addition to a much weaker military that will result.