The Iranian regime, in a whirlpool of collapse
Jan. 2, 2019 - In a recent interview with the Mostaghel newspaper, Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of the infamous Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the founders of Islamic Republic, talked about Hassan Rouhani’s defeat and the collapse of the Iranian regime.
Hashemi’s statements were widely republished by media outlets
affiliated with the so-called reformist faction of the Iranian regime, and
pundits and personalities of this faction generally confirmed it.
“The collapse of legitimacy has already happened, and only a
physical collapse has not happened, and chances are high that this happens,”
Hashemi said in her interview.
“Mr. Rouhani talks as if he isn’t the president. Parts of
these [matters] are in the jurisdiction of the government. He talks as if he is
the opposition. You should be able to act! Who are you criticizing?” she said
about the Iranian regime’s president’s lack of action and his comprehensive
defeat.
About future elections in the Iranian regime and whether the
Executives of Construction Party should introduce a candidate or even if she
will participate in the elections at all, she said: “That’s a question for me
too. Should we go again and vote? Should we still participate?... What’s the
use [of it] when the elected [option] is one thing and the selections and
approaches don’t match with the vote? What practical results did we have from
this vote since 2013/2014 and upwards.”
Hossein Ghazian, a University professor and former aide to
Ali Akbar Hashemi and Mohammad Khatami, explains the meaning of Faezeh
Hashemi’s “collapse” saying: “First, we should make a distinction between
political collapse and sociological collapse… [the Iranian] society is
collapsing sociologically. And it manifests itself in the form of rage,
protest, complains, concerns… and currently the society is holding together
under the pressure of the government.”
Abdollah Momeni, another Iranian moderate, tweeted a few days
ago: “There is no doubt that the current political situation in the society is
not normal and cannot continue. The moderation narrative is defeated. The
government is practically shut down and, the JCPOA and foreign policy, its only
achievements, are also defeated. This government won’t do anything to seriously
change the situation of the people anymore or bring a meaningful change to
politics in favor of democracy.”
In his speech Hassan Khomeini, the grand son of Islamic
Republic’s founder, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, also said: “The foundation of a
society is its people’s satisfaction.”
“There is no guarantee that we remain while others go,” he
warned.
Mohammadreza
Tajik, former deputy of education in the ministry of intelligence and
senior advisor to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, compared today’s
Iran with the Titanic ship that is trapped in a whirlpool and is sinking.
“Today’s Iran is not spirited. To a point that every
community, individual and institution is leaving its main and intrinsic
functionality,” Tajik added in an interview with Etemad online website.
Such statements by prominent figures of the moderate faction
in the Iranian ruling elite show that the reform project has reached its end.
These very same days, exactly one year ago, Iranians took to
the streets and famously chanted “Reformists, conservatives! The game is over!”
Over the past 12 months, a single week hasn’t passed where
some sort of protest and demonstration has not taken place in Iran. From
truckers, steel and sugar refinery workers, and farmers to teachers and
students, virtually every Iranian group and community has expressed its
discontent with the current political structure.
Warnings of personalities from the so-called moderate faction
on the anniversary of last year’s wide-spread protests, may be a last attempt
to rescue the regime where all current factions in Tehran have great economic
and political stakes in.
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