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Iran’s Paris-based opposition head says time for Khamenei to go, after US hits nuclear sites
Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) group, looks on during a meeting with Italian deputies of the House of Representatives in Rome, on July 12, 2023. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
Maryam Rajavi, head of the Paris-based opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran, says that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was responsible for the nuclear program that had now “gone up in smoke” and needed to go.
“Now Khamenei must go. The Iranian people welcome the end of the war and seek peace and freedom,” she says in a statement, following unprecedented US strikes that President Donald Trump said had “obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear facilities.
“Khamenei is responsible for an unpatriotic project that, in addition to costing countless lives, has cost the Iranian people at least $2 trillion—and now, it has all gone up in smoke.”
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