{"id":332167,"date":"2025-05-28T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=332167"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:51:51","slug":"khameneis-plea-to-listen-to-the-people-reveals-fear-not-confidence-amid-nationwide-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/khameneis-plea-to-listen-to-the-people-reveals-fear-not-confidence-amid-nationwide-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei&#8217;s Plea to &#8220;Listen to the People&#8221; Reveals Fear, Not Confidence, Amid Nationwide Protests in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_332168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332168\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-332168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Iran-regimes-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-addresses-governors-and-Interior-Ministry-officials-on-May-28-2025-e1748467532757.jpg\" alt=\"Iran regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses governors and Interior Ministry officials on May 28, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Iran-regimes-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-addresses-governors-and-Interior-Ministry-officials-on-May-28-2025-e1748467532757.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Iran-regimes-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-addresses-governors-and-Interior-Ministry-officials-on-May-28-2025-e1748467532757-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Iran-regimes-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-addresses-governors-and-Interior-Ministry-officials-on-May-28-2025-e1748467532757-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Iran-regimes-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-addresses-governors-and-Interior-Ministry-officials-on-May-28-2025-e1748467532757-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Iran-regimes-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-addresses-governors-and-Interior-Ministry-officials-on-May-28-2025-e1748467532757-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Iran-regimes-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-addresses-governors-and-Interior-Ministry-officials-on-May-28-2025-e1748467532757-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-332168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran regime&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses governors and Interior Ministry officials on May 28, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>Two-minute read<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a rare tone of urgency masked as advice, the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has called on officials to \u201cgo among the people\u201d and \u201clisten patiently, even if their words are harsh.\u201d But this uncharacteristic appeal is less a sign of openness and more a veiled admission of crisis.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cBe warm with the people. Go among them. If they speak harshly, listen with patience,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/farsi.khamenei.ir\/news-content?id=60305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Khamenei told a gathering<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of governors and Interior Ministry officials on May 28. \u201cIf this happens, people will develop affection for you, and in critical times, they will help you.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But this sudden push for face-to-face interaction comes as a wave of strikes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-protest-truckers-strike-on-day-7-exposes-regimes-economic-catastrophe\/\">protests sweep across Iran<\/a>, from truckers and bakers to teachers, retirees, and workers in over 135 cities. Fuel shortages, electricity cuts, and the soaring cost of living have pushed large segments of the population into the streets. In response, the regime has relied not on listening, but on arrests, threats, and bullets.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei&#39;s Hardline Stance on Nuclear Program Exposes Deepening Instability in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Regime<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WemgYWvQiy\">https:\/\/t.co\/WemgYWvQiy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1924895569350189334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khamenei\u2019s rhetorical shift is telling. For over four decades, he has portrayed dissenters as foreign agents, \u201cmisled by the enemy,\u201d and has consistently painted the clerical dictatorship as enjoying unified support. Now, the very same leader urges officials to &#8220;tolerate&#8221; public frustration\u2014a clear indication that even his tightly controlled intelligence channels can no longer deny the boiling rage of society.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Still, Khamenei attempts to frame this crisis in inverted logic. \u201cThere\u2019s no special issue in the country no war, no disease, no major security threat, no intense political infighting,\u201d he claimed, while declaring that \u201cthe country is full of opportunities.\u201d But this denial stands in stark contrast to Iran\u2019s reality: rampant inflation, record-high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/812112\/youth-unemployment-rate-in-iran\/#:~:text=The%20youth%20unemployment%20rate%20in,remained%20at%20around%2022.79%20percent.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youth unemployment<\/a>, violent crackdowns, and a regime that has become ideologically, economically, and morally bankrupt.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Perhaps most cynically, Khamenei once again recycled his metaphor of \u201cthe seven-headed dragon of corruption\u201d, stating, \u201cIt cannot be eliminated easily. We must continue fighting it.\u201d Yet he dismissed widespread allegations of systemic corruption as a \u201clie\u201d and insisted, \u201cThe system is healthy.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#News<\/a>: Khamenei Rallies Basij Amid Fears of Protests and Pressure to Change His Regional Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6oe0jFAu7\">https:\/\/t.co\/L6oe0jFAu7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1861689436938874968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That statement is betrayed by fact. Billions of dollars have vanished in scandals tied to institutions under Khamenei\u2019s direct control\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/iran\/#article\/part1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Execution of Imam Khomeini&#8217;s Order<\/a> (EIKO), the IRGC\u2019s financial empires, Bonyads, and the Supreme Leader\u2019s own office. The real \u201cdragon\u201d is not external; it lives and breathes at the apex of the regime itself.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Even Khamenei\u2019s warnings to officials to \u201cavoid personal business\u201d during public service are hollow. Dozens of regime-appointed governors and bureaucrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/features\/2017\/03\/31\/ANALYSIS-While-Iran-s-poor-suffer-hardships-regime-elite-live-in-luxury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accumulated lavish properties<\/a>, foreign scholarships for their children, and no-bid contracts in oil, construction, and import monopolies\u2014all shielded from oversight.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And while Khamenei advises \u201cpresence among the people,\u201d those same people are being arrested, surveilled, and silenced for demanding bread, dignity, or justice for murdered loved ones.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khamenei?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khamenei<\/a> Warns of Internal Doubt as Nuclear Talks and Crises Shake <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Ruling System<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ozjsJI9KBh\">https:\/\/t.co\/ozjsJI9KBh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1915811542265958431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This isn\u2019t outreach\u2014it\u2019s fear management.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the final analysis, Khamenei\u2019s speech was not a display of leadership, but a calibrated attempt to delay an eruption. His regime is aware that beneath the surface of controlled media and manipulated slogans lies a society on the brink. And his calls to \u201clisten\u201d are less about empathy and more about trying to buy time before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2022-nationwide-uprising\/\">the next explosion<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read&nbsp; In a rare tone of urgency masked as advice, the Iranian regime&rsquo;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has called on officials to &ldquo;go among the people&rdquo; and &ldquo;listen patiently, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":332168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130,5480],"class_list":{"0":"post-332167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-protests","8":"tag-iran-protests","9":"tag-ali-khamenei"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Khamenei&#039;s Plea to &quot;Listen to the People&quot; 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