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The news and analyses found in Iranian regime\u2019s media space these days are filled with a brand new topic: the issue of Hassan Rouhani\u2019s cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n
Reshuffling cabinet is somewhat unprecedented in the history of the Iranian regime, with the rare instances found in some of the mullahs\u2019 past 11 governments being mainly due to conflicts and clashes within the regime and not as a result of change in government\u2019s policies, something that could more appropriately be described as a \u2018re-allocation of positions\u2019 rather than a cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n
Raising the issue of cabinet reshuffle in dictatorships is generally a reaction to threatening conditions due to domestic social and political developments or international pressures, with consecutive reshuffles during the five final months of Shah\u2019s regime in 1979 being a clear instance in this regard.<\/p>\n
A too important question to point out here is that when a system fails to make any change or improvement within its structure by playing the \u2018reform\u2019 card at home and the \u2018appeasement\u2019 card abroad, then how is it supposed to pull out a winning card in extra time out of its thick trick book through simply moving some pieces all of whom have sworn to be loyal to the vilayat-e-faqih principle) The absolute rule of clergy) as the regime\u2019s very foundation?<\/p>\n
What is quite clear for both Iranian people and the mullahs\u2019 regime, as two ends of Iran\u2019s spectrum, is that the society\u2019s eruptive state and the course of political, social and international developments are all threatening the very existence of the vilayat-e-faqih regime. Such intimidating conditions that are undoubtedly the most important factors forcing the regime to turn to a ridiculous cabinet reshuffle show \u2013 by changing a piece at the end of his term!\u2014could be summed up in the following three important developments:<\/p>\n
1- A total regime change is what\u2019s being demanded by Iran\u2019s general public, a demand that keeps getting stronger day by day, week by week, and year by year; a demand which Iranian people have never backed down from and have constantly cried for in their protests and uprisings.<\/p>\n
This is a reality which Rouhani\u2019s Head of Office \u2018Vaezi\u2019 is forced to acknowledge, albeit implicitly. \u201cThe new circumstances require that some cabinet members, who were appointed by the president under normal conditions, to be replaced,\u201d says Vaezi while pointing to Rouhani\u2019s cabinet meeting with Khamenei.<\/p>\n
2- With regard to international factors, the two issues of the 2015 nuclear deal, aka the JCPOA, and human rights have irreversibly put the mullahs\u2019 regime under utmost pressure. The two crises, both of which being the results of Iranian people\u2019s struggles and resistance, will have direct devastative effect on the mullahs\u2019 regime in its entirety.<\/p>\n
3- Conflicts between regime\u2019s rival bands have gone beyond quantitative borders and are now spreading towards regime\u2019s foundations, a development that is undoubtedly the result of the first factor, namely the people\u2019s nationwide protests.<\/p>\n
The three above mentioned facts and developments have joined hands to push the entire vilayat-e-faqih regime deeper into an identity crisis. That\u2019s why the issue of a cabinet reshuffle is raised with Khamenei\u2019s supervision to act as a safety valve for extending regime\u2019s lifespan.<\/p>\n
To implement the so-called cabinet reshuffle, a package containing the mullahs\u2019 well-known combination of vulgarity, lie, fraud and deception is pulled out of regime\u2019s trick box, with the result being replacement of only one piece: resignation of regime\u2019s head of the Central Bank at the end of his term!<\/p>\n
As the presenter of such packages, Hassan Rouhani stated in the most vulgar way that the reason why exploited people hated the outgoing head of the Central Bank was his fight against corruption, saying \u201cMr. Seif was an extremely honest and precious director who fulfilled his obligations quite well. Fighting corruption raised by unauthorized entities will go down in history as Mr. Seif\u2019s achievement. He fought this type of corruption at full power and succeeded to remove this cancerous tumor.\u201d (Hassan Rouhani\u2019s speech, Wednesday, July 25, 2018)<\/p>\n
To see the real picture, however, it would suffice to turn the camera away from Rouhani and zoom it in through his office window on people that have kept gathering for at least the past two years in front of state-linked predatory thieving entities, shouting and pounding on their closed doors so they could retrieve part of their assets.<\/p>\n
And to respond to Rouhani\u2019s remarks, it would suffice to put Seif\u2019s record on his table and show him the biting realities that keep tightening their grip on Iranian people: a quadrupled cash flow, a tripled foreign currency rate, a 75 percent decrease in the value of national currency, and the list goes on.<\/p>\n
Rouhani\u2019s remarks are so flagrantly vulgar and ridiculous that even regime MP \u2018Ahmadi Lashki\u2019 reacts against them while trying to put the real picture in front of regime\u2019s president. \u201cMr. Rouhani, for how long are you going to tie in the country\u2019s economy with Dr. Seif\u2019s policies? Due to Dr. Seif\u2019s wrong policies, many people have turned against the Islamic regime. When are you going to announce the date at which the failed credit institutions will fully repay their investors? When are you going to stabilize the currency and gold market?\u201d says Lashki on July 24, 2018.<\/p>\n
But aside from such duplicate games and banal packages, the fact is that Khamenei, Rouhani and all their office and cabinet members as well as the MPs are fully aware of what they\u2019ve done to people and, as put by Rouhani\u2019s head of office Vaezi, what the new circumstances require.<\/p>\n
The new circumstances, in which the so-called \u2018reformism\u2019 and \u2018moderation\u2019 bridges are totally destroyed at the hands of Iranian people who launched a nationwide uprising in January and never stopped protesting ever since, the golden era of West\u2019s appeasement policy has turned into days and weeks of global pressure, the collapse of the country\u2019s economic structure and the conflicts within the ruling mafia has reached the very foundation of the regime, all suggest a reshuffle game in extra time, and not with spectators who are sitting at the stadium to support either of the two teams, but have took to the streets and city squares instead to cry out their 40-year-old love for freedom and to launch Iran\u2019s big reshuffle by putting an end to the vilayat-e-faqih\u2019s dominance and overthrowing the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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