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Massoud Rajavi: 25,000-strong gathering in London shows Resistance's President-elect enjoys majority support among Iranian people Following the magnificent rally at Earl's Court London where Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, addressed an audience of 25,000 people, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, appeared in a gathering of thousands of combatants in an NLA base camp. In a two-hour speech broadcast live via satellite for Europe and Iran, Mr. Rajavi said: Iran's ruling mullahs tried full-force and mobilized all of their embassies across Europe to resort to every conspiracy, blackmail and intimidation to prevent the Iranians' gathering yesterday in London or reduce the number of participants, and particularly prevent the attendance of the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. The firm determination of our compatriots, anxiously seeking Iran's liberation, however, surpassed every conspiracy and dumbfounded the mullahs and their agents, as the international news agencies reported on the largest-ever gathering of 25,000 Iranians abroad in the presence of the Resistance's President-elect. Mr. Rajavi added: 1. This magnificent, unprecedented rally, beamed five hours live into Iran, Middle East, Europe and the United States, once again indicated that the absolute majority of Iranians, both inside Iran and abroad, support the President-elect Maryam Rajavi who heads the only democratic alternative for the illegitimate religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran. 2. The demonstrations, acts of protest, and publicity activities in 53 cities across Iran which were carried out under conditions of maximum repression, upon the call by the Mojahedin's Command Headquarters inside Iran on the occasion of June 20 and in support of the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, further testify this truth. 3. If Iran's ruling mullahs, their accomplices and those who have set sights on this illegitimate regime deny the truth, they can test their chances versus the Iranian Resistance in a free presidential election, based not on the Velayat-e Faqih but on the principle of national sovereignty, or in an election for the Constituent Assembly which should be carried out with sufficient guarantees, under the auspices of the United Nations. 4. The mullahs' illegitimate regime, however, has never and will never submit to a genuine election and the Iranian people's free choice. This is exactly why on the 15th anniversary of June 20- the day when Khomeini's guards opened fire on the peaceful demonstration of half a million residents of Tehran- and while the people of Iran have offered at least 100,000 of their most valiant children to the cause of freedom and national sovereignty, I reiterate that this regime must be overthrown in its entirety at the hands of the National Liberation Army and with the nation's backing. The day of