Iran: Election, or Referendum?

American Thinker.com ^ | May 16, 2021 | Hamid Enayat

[Kaslin]

Iranian society is enduring hardships on many fronts under the reign of the mullahs.

The spectrum is quite broad, including domestic, regional, and international matters, economic challenges for its citizens, and ethnic and religious inequalities. In all of these areas, the regime's report card reflects an atmosphere of disappointment and frustration.

In this respect (according to the Iranian calendar year), the Year 1400 presidential election (to be held June 18) is being held during the most unprecedented public despair. There is even a boycott of public participation in the election compared with other elections in the last forty years of the Islamic Republic.

In an interview with Le Monde, Faezeh Rafsanjani, Hashemi Rafsanjani's daughter, and a dissident, called for a boycott of this election.

The unprecedented antagonism between the ordinary people and the government has intensified.

This presidential election should be evaluated from different angles. The accumulation of public discontent, people's total distrust regarding the regime's economic plans, the destruction of the middle classes and lower strata of society, as well as the weakness and crisis of the legitimacy for the Supreme Leader, leads the society closer to a revolt. It is now a while that the slogan "My vote, NO Islamic Republic but YES to the Democratic Republic" has been shared widely on different social media platforms. In a way, this presidential election could be considered a referendum for the regime in Tehran.

[alloysteel]

Under a despotic regime, even to register less than enthusiastic support for the despots is close to rebellion, and the Iranians may just be sufficiently incensed to proceed with that act of defiance.

Several unsuccessful incidents of resistance to the ruling theocracy have already occurred in Iran, and if the pressure is kept on the regime, this may be the spark the lights the path to taking down the mullahs.

[arthurus]

The national currency value has fallem as much as 10 times its previous value

This makes no sense. Falling ten times its value would put it ay a long minus value. Receiving ten rials would render one immediately 90 rials poorer. Not to mention fallem

[nuconvert]

If the current regime fizzles or it collapses after Khamenie dies, there will be a military takeover by IRGC.

[2harddrive]

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