{"id":246149,"date":"2021-09-01T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=246149"},"modified":"2023-01-31T23:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:22:05","slug":"iran-why-did-ebrahim-raisi-visit-khuzestan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/ebrahim-raisi\/iran-why-did-ebrahim-raisi-visit-khuzestan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Why Did Ebrahim Raisi Visit Khuzestan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Friday, August 27, just\u00a0two days after Ebrahim Raisi got his cabinet confirmed\u00a0by the parliament<\/span>,\u00a0he mounted a\u00a0modest\u00a0plane, drove a\u00a0domestically\u00a0produced\u00a0car<\/span>, and visited Ahvaz<\/a>, the heart of the unrest-driven Khuzestan province. In any other country of the world, such acts would have been interpreted as the best kind of political PR stunt but in Iran, people just don\u2019t buy the slightest bit of it.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While campaigning against six other presidential contenders in June, Ebrahim Raisi was exploiting the word \u201cpeople\u201d more than any other candidate in the Iranian regime\u2019s history. The level of his insistence about \u2018reaching out to people’, \u2018working with people\u2019 and \u2018talking to people\u2019 revealed how much the regime is concerned about a popular revolt that has inflamed several times into nationwide uprisings since 2017. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Iranians, as well as political observers, still remember how Hashemi Rafsanjani<\/a>, the former president after Khomeini\u2019s death, called himself \u2018the Builder-in-Chief\u2019, trying to pose as the man-to-go for building up a nation that had lost several hundred thousand lives and more than 1 trillion in treasure to war with Iraq.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Replacing Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami<\/a> sold himself as \u201ca reformist\u201d, trying to dampen the nationwide outcry for social and political freedom. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a> who succeeded Khatami posed as a populist, wore regular clothes, spoke slang language, and tried to pretend to be a man of the people. Also, Hassan Rouhani<\/a> did try to run the \u2018moderate show\u2019 to hit a nerve in the infuriated society. Nevertheless, fraud, corruption, plundering, and all-time-high bloody oppression of the regime have left no room for deceit and Ebrahim Raisi is wearing a worn-out mantle that no one respects anymore.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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