Passage: The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said that "this vote, like all the other mascarades of this theocracy, is completely illegitimate," according to a statement received by AFP in Nicosia. Massud Radjavi, head of the Paris-based NCRI and chief of the armed opposition group People's Mujahedeen, called the May 23 polls a "political funeral and the inevitable sweeping aside" of outgoing president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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