The start of electoral campaign by the eight candidates
who are allowed to run for the coming presidential elections on 14 June 2013 is
a good occasion to judge the nullity, ignorance and “joke like statements” of
the people who are running the regime as well as those aspiring of forming the
next Iranian government.
Let’s
begin with the leader, the ego-centric, narcissi, vindictive Ali Khameneh’i: In
his latest address to the MMs (members of the Majles, or the Islamic
Parliament) on 29 May 2013, he “thanked” all the candidates for “having submitted
without any protest to the legal decision of the Council of the Guardians of
the Constitution”, the 12 member organ which had rejected their competence to
run for the coming presidential elections.
Is
he considering these 678 men, including Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
the president of the Assembly for Discerning the Interests of the State and Mr.
Esfandiar Rahim Masha’i, a former Executive Vice-president, and some women, as sheep
who have no will by themselves? The answer is: Yes, for he consider himself as
the God send shepherd of not only the 78 million Iranians, but all the Muslims
in the world.
Anyhow, his “thanking” has been interpreted by most
Iranian political observers as a final blow to requests presented to him by
some of Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani’s supporters, like the elder daughter and the
nephew of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeiny, the founder father of the present
Iranian theocracy, to order the Council of the Guardians he controls to review
the case of the former president.
Believe
it or not, some of the rejected candidates interviewed by the Iranian
Television also thanked the Guardians for having refused their competence. And
contrary to some expectations, there was no reaction from the Ahmadi Nezhad-
Rahim Masha’i camp.
As
far the eight approved candidates are concerned, one of their common point is
the vicious critics and virulent attacks against the “rebel” President Mahmoud
Ahmadi Nezhad, presented by them as the “sole and only” responsible for the
international isolation of the nation, the collapse of the economy, the high
level of unemployment and inflation in the one hand and the extreme poverty of
the majority of the people on the other.
The other common point is the total silence observed by
all of them concerning the violation of human rights, the absence of freedoms,
the censorship of the press, the discrimination against women and other
religions, including the Sunni, the savage repression of demonstrations the
physical violence of some prisoners, men and women, the nuclear program etc…
Their
programs, -- if one can talk about program –presented during interviews by the
State-run Voice and Visage (Radio and TV) of the Islamic Republic anchormen
denounced by most of them as “unfair and unbalanced”, are as meaningless as
extravagant and strange:
Dr.
Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Foreign Affairs minister who is the senior Advisor
of Ali Khameneh’I for international affairs says when he was in charge of the
regime’s relations with the world, the Islamic Republic was so powerful that
once, “when I went to Paris, Mr. Mitterrand came to meet me”.
“Is
there someone in the world to tell this gentleman that it was you who went to
Paris to meet the French President and not the other way”, observed Mr. Hassan
Khayatbashi, a veteran showman who presents on the Los Angeles-based Andisheh
TV “The World To Day” and the “Very Very Zero International Network”, a
satirical political program.
And to demonstrate the power of the Islamic Republic, Mr.
Said Jalili, the Chief Iranian negotiator on nuclear crisis and the candidate
who many political commentators think will be the next president of Iran told
the VVIR that “our position is as strong as those of the six most powerful
nations of the world combined, for we, the Iranian delegation, sits on one side
of the table alone facing the six powers on the other side”.
His
economic program is simple: Restoration of the “economy of resistance”, meaning
that followed by the government of Mr. Mir Hosseyne Moussavi, the (Iran-Iraq) war
time Prime Minister who is now under house arrest with his wife for having
protested to the electoral frauds four years ago when the revolutionary guards,
on orders from Mr. Khameneh’i, changed the names of the ballot boxes, thus
giving the 25 million votes of Mr. Moussavi to Mr. Ahmadi Nezhad, who had
scored only 16 millions.
Let’s
mention that Mr. Jalili, a graduate from the Emam Sadeq University that belongs
to the Sepah and forms cadres for this army has written his thesis on the “Foreign
Policy of the Prophet Mohammad”.
“Which foreign policy? When? At a time that Arabia was
a land scattered between several tribes, when the prophet was busy crushing his
opponents who refused to become Muslims? We know that during his lifetime, he wrote
three letters to the leaders of Rome, Egypt and Iran, this one throwing it in
the fire”, observed Mr. Bahra, Moshiri, a much respected literary based in
Houston, Texas.
Mr.
Hassan Rohani’s remedy for the collapsing Iranian economy is “to inject
1.110.000 toumans to the 34.000 factories and industrial units that are abandoned
half way by their bankrupted owners in order to help finish them and at the
same time, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, mostly for the young
population”.
“Can anyone tell me where in the world is possible to
put on its feet an abandoned factory with only 1.110.000 toumans, meaning 300
dollars based on the street exchange rate of one dollars to 3.700 tomans? Asked
Mr. Bizhan Eftekhari, an economist presenting an economic program on the same
Anishedh TV.
For
the “ever candidate” Mohsen Reza’i, the Secretary of the ADIS, to revive the economy,
one must reduce imports and increase exports. But he did not explain how he
would do that when the economy of the regime is almost collapsing because of
the international sanctions that have almost shut most of the nation’s
industrial units.
It
is interesting to know that in a recent poll, the majority of the questioned
said they would abstain, against 8 per cent who said they would vote for Mr.
Rohani, 3 per cent for Mr. Jalili, 2 per cent for Mr. Qalibaf, one percent for
Mr. Velayati and less than that for Mr. Haddad Adel and Mr. Reza’i.
However, to demonstrate the weakness of the leader who
had advised the would be presidents to “be polite and avoid personal attacks
against each other”, Mr. Qalibaf, ignoring his recommendations, was the first
to fire shuts against some candidates, saying “it is interesting that people
who had proved their incompetence when in charge of foreign affairs (Dr. Velayati)
and security (Mr. Rohani) of the nation now they want to redress the situation”.
ENDS
Safa Haeri
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