Definition: In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.
Input: 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.

received