{"id":240117,"date":"2021-05-21T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=240117"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:54:59","slug":"iran-elections-2021-end-of-the-mirage-of-reformist-existence-within-the-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/iran-elections-2021-end-of-the-mirage-of-reformist-existence-within-the-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Election 2021: End of the Mirage of Reformist Existence Within the Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran-End of the Mirage of Reformist Existence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This past week, Iran\u2019s Interior Ministry began registering candidates for the sham presidential election<\/a> that is set to take place on June 18.<\/p>\n

\nRegime\u2019s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made headlines by formalizing his own bid to reclaim the position that he left in 2013. The 2013 election of so-called reformist Hassan Rouhani was described by some in the West as a victory for the \u201creformists\u201d inside the regime.<\/p>\n

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\nA recent analysis<\/a> indicates that the average annual number of executions in Iran was actually higher during the \u201creformist\u201d Rouhani era than while \u201chardliner\u201d Ahmadinejad was president. And the past eight years more than 4,000 executions do not even count the thousands of extrajudicial killings that have been brought about through torture, denial of medical care especially during the coronavirus pandemic, and direct attacks leading to death in absence of any arrest.<\/p>\n

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The Iranian regime security forces shot protesters from a close distance during November 2019 protests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The worst of these latter incidents occurred in November 2019<\/a>, when regime authorities immediately responded with lethal force to a nationwide uprising that featured slogans condemning both the \u201chardline\u201d and the \u201creformist\u201d establishment in nearly 200 cities and towns. In a matter of only days, security forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fatally shot around 1,500 protesters. Another 12,000 were arrested, and a report from Amnesty International later confirmed that many of them had been subjected to months of torture.<\/p>\n

This incident took place under a \u201creformist\u201d administration, and ironically all regime\u2019s malign activities had taken place when a so-called reformist administration was in charge. In fact, 32 out of 42 years era of Islamic Republic all the administrations were so-called \u201creformist\u201d administrations\u201d; 8 years of Mousavi from 1981 to 1989, eight years of Rafsanjani from 1989 to 1997, eight years of Khatami 1997 to 2005, and eight years of Rouhani from 2013 to 2021.<\/p>\n

\"Massacre-1988-20\"<\/p>\n

In 1988<\/a> one of the greatest crimes of the century took place in Iran under the \u201creformist\u201d administration of Mir Hossein Mousavi. Over the course of several months that year, as many as 30,000 political prisoners were executed in groups before being buried in secret mass graves. One of the leading figures in that massacre was Ebrahim Raisi, who was then Deputy Prosecutor for Tehran and was appointed in 2019 to head the federal judiciary. His attitudes about the suppression of dissent have not changed in the intervening 30 years, as evidenced by a June 2020 television interview in which he explicitly defended the legacy of the 1988 massacre, emphasizing the supposed infallibility of Khomeini\u2019s pronouncement that there should be \u201cno mercy\u201d for members of opposition group the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).<\/p>\n

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Rouhani\u2019s legacy of brutality demonstrates what many have recognized since the earliest days of the Iranian regime: that the system is set up to prioritize loyalty to the supreme leader whether they pretend to be a \u201chardliner\u201d or \u201creformists.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this sense, Iran\u2019s elections are little more than an exercise in power-sharing among two factions with differing personal interests but no meaningful differences in policy or ideology. While it is true that more \u201creformists\u201d have been excluded from the ballot this year, this only reflects a push to consolidate power in the face of challenges that are coming from well outside the political process.<\/p>\n

One editorial in a state-run daily newspaper recently acknowledged that the main competition in this year\u2019s election is not among the various candidates but rather between the leading candidates and a public that is intent upon expressing their disregard for the system as a whole.<\/p>\n

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The regime\u2019s supreme<\/a> leader prefers Raisi to become the nest president of the regime. That preference is no doubt based on Raisi\u2019s history of brutality and his recent willingness, as judiciary chief, to deploy the same brutality against emerging challenges to the Iranian regime, especially those coming from the group, MEK<\/a>, that Raisi targeted for mass execution in 1988. The Iranian people clearly recognize that MEK is their best source of hope<\/a> for a democratic future, free of the mullahs\u2019 rule. Meanwhile, the mullahs themselves are aware of the extent to which the public has rejected them, and they recognize that if they are to hold onto power, they must renew their efforts to stamp out the organized Resistance.<\/p>\n

Whatever the exact outcome<\/a> of next month\u2019s election in Iran, the international community should anticipate unrest and human rights abuses to follow. And anyone who is interested in the prospect of Iranian democracy should be prepared to support the people who plan to boycott the regime\u2019s sham elections.<\/p>\n

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