{"id":313722,"date":"2023-11-25T07:42:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T06:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=313722"},"modified":"2023-11-25T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T07:31:13","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-november-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-november-25-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 November 25, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mass Purging of Parliamentary Election Candidates Will Have Grave Consequences for the Regime, Warns Former MP<\/h3>\n

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On November 23, Gholam-Ali Jafarzadeh Imenabadi, a former member of the regime’s parliament, warned against serial purging of parliamentary election candidates, stating, “The Guardian Council’s Supervisory Board must reconsider disqualifying candidates. If we continue down this path, it’s like breaking a dam; we are destroying ourselves. These are the realities of our society. Why deceive ourselves?”<\/p>\n

Admitting to the illegitimacy of the regime by referring to the low number of votes cast by current members of the parliament, Jafarzadeh said, “It is not acceptable for someone to become a parliamentarian with only 4,000 votes and speak on behalf of 85 million people.”<\/p>\n

The former MP also told the state-run Khabar Online<\/a>, “This parliament has never objected to the Raisi government. Whereas, according to the Constitution, we have a separation of powers. The emphasis is that there should not be unnecessary conflicts and tensions, does not mean that the parliament shall abandon its oversight. But the eleventh [current] parliament relinquished its supervisory role, and Mr. Raisi’s government did whatever it pleased, and the people paid the price.”<\/p>\n

He added, “The reality is that the mindset that the parliament is one of the pillars of this country is now shattered, and people say it doesn’t matter whether there is a parliament or not. When we go among the people, they say, ‘What do you want to do in the parliament?’ Because they don’t let you work in the parliament at all; you’re afraid to speak, and if you do, you get disqualified. This means that the people’s mindset towards the parliament has been ruined.”<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s Regime Executes Political Prisoner Milad Zohrevand for Participating in Nationwide Uprising<\/h3>\n
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