Iran’s post “Elections”

The ongoing power struggle has made the whole system weaker.

It may be argued that “elections” is a word found in democratic systems that use “power struggle” to choose a new government. So what the heck is all the dust up when Mullahs, with all their “bad habits”, are forced to experience this democratic process? Let’s welcome and have business with Iran’s new moderate government.

A resonating voice heaps on us in the air, “Shush!” says the Iranian populace. If Mullahs were to respect “elections”, they would not have to disguise themselves as “Muslims”.

 In the most savage despotic system، introduced by the fundamentalist rulers of Iran, where the “Supreme Leader” decides everything, people’s voice or “elections” finds no place. Elections, parliament, protocols, as well as God and Islam are to decorate this putrid carcass of fundamentalism and make it suitable for the present-day.

Almost four decades ago Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, a high ranking breed of Islamic fundamentalism, inaugurated Iran’s present ruling system. His successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has resumed the trend since his death. This system that is ironically called the “Islamic Republic” in fact neither looks like a republic, nor accords the values of the real Islam.  This “Islamic Republic” defines the “Supreme Leader” as a smaller God on earth. People are not eligible to elect or deny or even to criticize him. When Ayatollah Khomeini was still alive, Mullahs in Iran’s parliament frequently said, “If Iran’s eighty million population decide one direction and the “Supreme Leader” decides another, the latter will be chosen as the correct and legal choice”

Well, Ayatollahs’ good old days passed, Dictators cannot rule for ever. The denied eighty million rose up to serve the Ayatollahs with a few slaps on the face. If it wasn’t for its savage suppressive manners, the so called Islamic Republic would have gone, perhaps, in the 2009 mass uprising. Uprisings, in smaller dimensions, continued in different parts of Iran by different participants. Fear of being unseated made the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, to abandon his ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons, a project that cost the system a fortune and would save the government if it succeeded to produce the atomic bomb. It was also a project that pushed many Iranians under the poverty line. The fear, along with further consecutive failures, had also a sharp effect on different ranks within the government. It disintegrated mullahs in how to suppress Iranian people and to save the system.

The processes of events made the “supreme Leader” lose his grandeur. The one man rule of “Islamic Republic of Iran” is now falling part from within. The position of the “supreme Leader”, the pillar of the system, is at stakes. This made the second powerful fraction, led by president Rouhani and Rafsanjani the number two man among mullahs, to tussle for share of power.

This was the story behind the February 26^th “elecctions” in Iran. A power struggle aimed to bring down the position of the Supreme Leader meant to break the “ship’s mast”. The whole system came out of the “elections” weaker. While Iranian masses and their legitimate resistance are getting more power the dogfight within Iran’s ruling system continues in the post-election era.