The Mojahedin-e Enghelabe Islami Organization [Islamic Revolution Mojahedin] ‎released a statement that analyzes the eight Majlis elections in which it talks of ‎inconsistencies and irregularities in the registration of candidates, the qualification ‎process, voting and the announcement of results. ‎

In its statement, this reformist organization identified the eight Majlis elections as the ‎most unprecedented and questionable elections event in the history of the Islamic ‎republic of Iran, noting that it started a “new chapter in post-revolutionary state-people ‎relations in Iran.” The party’s statement also criticized the predetermined outcome of the ‎‎150 races, and concluded, based on the reformists’ victories in 50 races out of a total 134, ‎that if reformists were allowed to compete in free and fair elections all over Iran, they ‎would have been the unquestionable victors of the eight Majlis elections that were held in ‎March and April of 2008. ‎

Noting that 900 of the 7,597 candidates registered for elections were reformists, the ‎Mojahedin-e Enghelab Organization stated that about of the 5,000 candidates who had ‎registered 2,500 were disqualified (which is about 33 percent of the registrants), adding, ‎‎“In the previous Majlis elections this figure had never exceeded 10 percent.” ‎

‎“In the second round of qualifications by the Guardian Council, unfortunately no figures ‎were released, but the remarks of the Guardian Council’s spokesperson that 3,000 ‎complaints were submitted to the oversight committees demonstrate the fact that the ‎aforementioned committees disqualified a considerable number of reformist registrants, ‎even though few were left from the previous round’s purge, increasing the number of ‎disqualified registrants to more than 3,000, meaning more than 40 percent of total ‎registrants,” the statement continues.‎

The organization recalls that in the second round of qualifications, the Guardian Council ‎accepted a number of previously disqualified registrants and similarly disqualified some ‎additional registrants, such that in the end 4,755 individuals (meaning less than 63 ‎percent of registrants) were qualified. ‎

The statement concludes that in the run-off elections, about one-third of the registrants ‎were removed from elections such that, despite the regime’s propaganda, reformists were ‎effectively limited to competition in only 50 districts. In addition, many prominent ‎reformist had refrained from registering because of the threat of disqualification. The ‎Guardian Council also openly disqualified several registrants for participating in sit-ins ‎and signing critical letters addressed to the supreme leader. ‎

This reformist party also denounced participation figures released by Tehran’s governor ‎as “despicable,” noting that the 40 percent participation rate claimed by the governor is ‎inconsistent with the 30 percent figure produced by dividing the total number of ‎participants, i.e. 1,909,562 individuals, by the 6.5 million eligible voters. ‎