{"id":218514,"date":"2020-05-20T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=218514"},"modified":"2023-01-23T23:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:33:57","slug":"irans-regime-is-aware-of-its-inevitable-destruction-but-seeks-to-delay-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-source-reports\/irans-regime-is-aware-of-its-inevitable-destruction-but-seeks-to-delay-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Is Aware of Its Inevitable Destruction But Seeks to Delay It"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_218515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218515\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tehran-Sharif-Tehran-Sharif-University-Protests-13-January\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tehran-Sharif-Tehran-Sharif-University-Protests-13-January.jpg\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s Regime Is Aware of Its Inevitable Destruction But Seeks to Delay It \" width=\"1000\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tehran-Sharif-Tehran-Sharif-University-Protests-13-January.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tehran-Sharif-Tehran-Sharif-University-Protests-13-January-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tehran-Sharif-Tehran-Sharif-University-Protests-13-January-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tehran-Sharif-Tehran-Sharif-University-Protests-13-January-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tehran-Sharif-Tehran-Sharif-University-Protests-13-January-758x420.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran: Tehran, Sharif University Protests &#8211; 13 January 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Saeed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a sociologist\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Iran\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0regime,\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etemadonline.com\/content\/403085\/%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84-%D9%88-%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC-%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%86%D8%AE%D8%A8%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%AE%D9%85-%D9%86%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%82-%D9%88-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">told\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0state-run<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Etemad Online<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0website that the mullah<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s\u2019<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0regime is doomed. The convict is aware of himself and knows that nothing but destruction awaits him, and he only tries to delay his destruction by continuing his wrong path.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a retired associate professor in the sociology department of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tehran<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. He\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">became an advisor to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development in Hassan Rouhani&#8217;s government<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The sociologist of the regime considered the collapse of the ruling regime in Iran inevitable due to the accumulation of problems and contradictions, and referring to the collapse of the Plasco building, said that &#8220;the collapse of the Iranian regime in the general passivity of government and society<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in the impossibility of political activism both inside and outside will happen either outside the government or even between insiders and outsiders. The accident management of the Plasco building is a symbol of the country&#8217;s management,&#8221; Saeed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moiedfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In an interview with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Etemad<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Online on May 18, 2020,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0said:<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;The system imagines that if it shows the slightest weakness and makes the slightest change, it cannot adapt to that change.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Therefore, the country&#8217;s ruling system is not present and is not able to change its procedures. Not because, according to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moiedfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the mullahs&#8217; regime is unaware of the nature and depth of their and the country&#8217;s problems.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On the contrary, according to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, because the country&#8217;s leaders are aware of the problems and know what is going on in front of them, they are moving in the wrong direction, because if they want to go back the wrong way for a moment, the speed will be so fast<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that it may<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0increase the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">speed at which the regime collapses.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;That is why the Iranian regime is moving in the wrong direction, hoping that &#8216;this destruction will go back a little bit,'&#8221; he said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0add<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: &#8220;The result of this false trend is distrust, as well as the spread of corruption and inefficiency&#8221; and, of course, the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">deepening of the vast gap between government and society makes it more in-depth.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The latest example of this, according to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, is the crisis caused by the coronavirus in the country, which &#8220;occurred due to shortcomings or serious opportunism i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0not closing borders, especially with China, which is an ally of the regime, and as a result, Iran became the second country to contract the disease.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The virus<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">spread to the region, and the disaster befell the people.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Elsewhere in the interview,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0said<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0&#8220;The huge gap between the people and the system has become so apparent and so deep in society that there is no longer a need for secrecy.&#8221; He\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">went\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on to say that now even the rift and mistrust &#8220;has spread to the inner layers of the government<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;Today, the possibility of activism has been taken away from both insiders and outsiders<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hat is, we are in a situation where we are practically all moving in one direction, and we are all being pushed in this direction.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nd this position, according to this sociologist of the regime, is the inevitable collapse of the system, and no force can prevent it.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, from now on, a simple incident could cause the system to collapse in the general passivity, just as: &#8220;A small incident like a picnic gas turned the whole Plasco building into a mound of dirt at once.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moidfar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0concluded:\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What has troubled the system is its behavior; it is a framework that it has created for itself and closed all the doors of change to itself and has accelerated in the wrong direction that society and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t will bring down the country.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he interview concludes\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that we must sit down and see what happens<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0next.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No, it is not like that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0In the current situation where the mullahs&#8217; regime is at a deadly social and economic deadlock and besieg<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed by<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0all kinds of crises, including the outbreak of coronavirus,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sitting on the sidelines is not the solution<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The widespread dissatisfaction and uprisings of the Iranian people, especially the recent uprisings in\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">November 2019<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/27206-anti-regime-protests-by-university-students-in-tehran-over-the-downing-of-ukrainian-plane\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">January 2020<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">led\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by the organized Iranian\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">esistance (the\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">MEK<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/t\/iranian-resistance-units\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Resistance Units<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) across the country, are leading the regime to its inevitable fate of overthrow.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saeed&nbsp;Moidfar, a sociologist&nbsp;in Iran&rsquo;s&nbsp;regime,&nbsp;told&nbsp;the&nbsp;state-run&nbsp;Etemad Online&nbsp;website that the mullahs&rsquo;&nbsp;regime is doomed. 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