{"id":236403,"date":"2021-03-16T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236403"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:03:35","slug":"irans-sham-presidential-elections-and-restive-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-sham-presidential-elections-and-restive-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Sham Presidential Elections and Restive Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran’s regime will hold its sham presidential elections in June 2021. Iran’s crises have caused factional feuding within the regime. State-run media warn officials of another national boycott and possible protests.<\/p>\n

After the major Iran protests<\/a> in November 2019 and the subsequent national boycott of the regime’s sham parliamentary elections<\/a> in February 2020, mullahs fear another boycott. Under Iran’s social crisis and society’s restiveness, this boycott underlines that the mullahs’ regime is illegitimate, and people want regime change.<\/p>\n

“The elections of [the Persian Year of] 1400 may be considered as one of the few elections in which everything is vague except the date of holding, which is June 18. The people’s economic and livelihood dissatisfaction, on the one hand, and the view of the government and the Guardian Council on the forthcoming elections, on the other hand, have overshadowed the 13th presidential election more,” wrote the state-run Arman daily on Monday.<\/p>\n

“The most important issue is people’s participation in the elections because it is the people who show, by their presence at the ballot box, that they trust the electoral body as a place to change the existing trends in society or that they believe in the electoral body. The ballot box has lost its function,” Arman daily claimed on Monday.<\/p>\n

Key contrasts differentiate elections in western democracies and the process that is actually selection\/appointments in Iran. A closer look at the dynamics involved in the Majlis (parliamentary) staged by the mullahs’ regime leads one to realize the entire process is nothing but a sham while true power lies elsewhere. The Guardian Council vets all candidates seeking to take part in the elections. It is this body that selects the candidates who may run for the presidency.<\/p>\n

There are general requirements for candidacy, which include: being a citizen of Iranian origin; over 30 years of age; a Muslim; qualified to be a care-taker of the Republic; and a possessor of both management abilities and a record of religious and political affiliation to the ‘Republic.’<\/p>\n

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