Mohammad Mohajeri, a conservative himself and former editor of hard-line daily Kayhan, has said in an interview that conservatives believe the current government has left such a bad record that its opponents are highly likely to win the next parliamentary and presidential elections.
“However, their fear may be baseless as the supporter of reformists and a large part of Iranian voters are not willing to take part in the elections,” Mohajeri said, adding that nonetheless, conservatives will continue their smear campaign against relative moderates such as former President Hassan Rouhani, former Majles Speakers Ali Larijani and Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri.
Meanwhile, Mohajeri said in another interview that Iran's reformists and conservatives have influence only among 15 to 20 percent of the society. He also charged that 90 percent of Iran's Friday Prayer Imams belong to the conservative camp and the Friday Prayers are a podium for only one political faction.
Characterizing the Raisi administration as “a generally weak government,” Shahryar Heidari told Khabar Online website on Wednesday, April 26 that the lawmakers who advocated Raisi’s candidacy in the presidential election wish to apologize to the Majles (parliament) and the nation for their decision.
Heidari particularly criticized the government's economic team and characterized it as “inefficient.” He said: “During the past days, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told the Majles once again that the country's number one priority is solving economic problems.”
Saedi said that the people have many complaints about their economic and financial problems adding that they are disturbed and angry. He said: “Once we used to say that the people are unhappy about the 30-percent annual inflation rate, but now inflation rises between 10 to 30 percent during one month and this has robbed Iranian families of their power to plan for their lives.”