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These two clips solely consist of anti-Iran propaganda to be honest, offering some poor, politically biased journalism.
The Al-Jazeera one selectively chooses to show only random people who say they aren't going to participate in the election, and tries hard to paint the Guardian Council's vetting decision as something that is going to push significant numbers of Iranians into the "regime change" camp... Which is genuinely nonsensical, since those who say they would have voted for liberals or for Ahmadinejad but then decided to boycot the election, had all been opposed to the system in the first place anyway.
The one by Deutsche Welle is equally propagandistic. I'm quite shocked at how obvious, repetitive, uninventive, and tired western state-propaganda (in this case, by the current German regime, an extremely enthusiastic participant in the relentless zio-American effort to destroy the Iranian nation) has become. It surprises me even more that there seem to be people who still buy into this sort of a fallacious routine (and I'm not referring to the above quoted PDF user). But then, I'm quickly reminded of just how manipulable humans (including highly educated, intelligent ones) really are.
In addition to trying to suggest, much like Al-Jazeera, that the electoral process enjoys no legitimacy among the Iranian people (a contention which voter turnouts in the Islamic Republic have steadily debunked), DW procedes to focus half its news item on the very marginal case of a female candidate nobody has heard of (notwithstanding how estimable a person she appears to be), who knows full well that she is not going to get qualified because she carries no political weight, and because the notion of "rejāle siāsi", a legal precondition for being allowed to run for presidency has always been interpreted as designating males only. So this is neither new nor even a central theme of today's public debate in Iran, yet DW makes it appear as if it was of utmost relevance and urgency - to western post-modernist, globalized citizens with mainstream views, who easily fall prey to their own regimes' propaganda it may be so, but not to the majority of Iranians.
In a jab to Iranian society and an affront to Iranian culture, DW is honest enough to show its true colors (animosity towards millennia-old Iranian Tradition) by including the statement of a young female (from the upper class, it would seem) who laments that supposedly, "Iranian women are more mysoginic than Iranian men". Well, thank God extremist "feminists" who think along such lines, conditioned as they usually are by BBC Farsi programs such as the masonic-inspired "Pargār", aren't having their way - that "Pargār" program being, by the way, one of the main and most dangerous current instruments of social engineering against the very existence of the Iranian nation and of religious tradition in Iran.
The way DW tries to mobilize its viewers by lending its report an activist type of suspense-building, emotive tinge ("Will this time be any different?" / "We met a candidate who is hoping to make history" / "To become the country's first female president" / "Zahra Shojai knows that, but isn't deterred by it. She believes she can make a difference"), another infantilizing playbook propaganda technique in systematic use by western media, is simply pathetic.
But what is actually quite sweet in this, which has me smiling from ear to ear, is how DW are decidedly shooting themseves in the foot by airing Mrs. Shojā'is declaration that she intends to run the country by "maternal management", which is made of "kindness, subtlety, delicacy and affection"! Behold, friends, this is classical old school feminism, which might still be considered legitimate to a certain degree. But contemporary new-generation feminists would outright blast Mrs. Shojā'i as a "reactionary patriarchal fascist perpetuating gender stereotypes" because with that statement, she clearly acknowledges the existing natural differences between sexes ( @aryobarzan @EvilWesteners - as a follow-on to our recent exchange on this subject).
Then, DW's subsequent interview with their correspondent had me shaking my head... Where to start? Let's examine some examples of biased, tendentious analyses:
"although there are some rumors even he [Ali Larijani] might be disqualified"
Perhaps DW and the regime in Berlin would have preferred an oligarch-type of candidate to be authorized to run, who in addition to staunchly supporting the Rohani administration and the JCPoA, has a daughter residing and working in the enemy state of the USA, as well as a niece employed by the civilian nuclear sector of those same USA, not to mention his suspected background of corruption. But to every Iranian with a sound understanding of what is best for his people and country, the adverb "even" seems quite out of place here.
"if the Guardian Council wants to boost voter participation to a level that gives at least some credibility to whoever is elected in the end, they might consider approving a candidate that is at least a tiny bit different this time"
Not only is the upcoming President of the Islamic Republic of Iran going to be legitimized by fair and square popular vote - which is far more than can be said of many of Germany's and the west's regional allies including states like Saudi Arabia or the UAE, but his credibility is also going to stem from his ability to safeguard the independence, self-determination, security, stability and ongoing technological and economic development of Iran in the face of a nefarious all-out quest by the world's major power block to destroy, balkanize and bury Iran for all eternity, without sparing any effort nor leaving any stone unturned in pursut of this sinister goal. Successfully resisting this onslaught yet again is going to be another political wonder in and by itself.
The next President's credibility is going to result from his reversal of the western-apologetic, slavish and defeatist naivety exhibited by the liberal Rohani administration. His credibility will be evident from the measures he will take to decrease the economic burden on less affluent working class segments of Iranian society, whose plight was met with near indifference if not contempt by Rohani and his team.
His credibility is going to be a consequence of doubling Iran's support for the Palestinian Resistance and other movements struggling for the rights of oppressed peoples in the Muslim world and beyond, now that the various remaining roadblocks imposed by liberals within the system are largely going to be lifted.
Also, what exactly do they mean by "approving a candidate that is at least a tiny bit different"? Either they haven't seen the list of qualified candidates, or they're oblivious to the fact that Mehralizadeh and Hemmati, the two reformist candidates allowed to run, are worlds apart from their principlist and revolutionary rivals.
One also has to have quite the nerve to utter the words "this time", as if in previous presidential elections held by the Islamic Republic, liberal reformists or moderates weren't actually running against revolutionaries or principlists... the same political pluralism of candidates was already in effect before the 2000's, when the domestic political divide in the IR used to be of a different type and political forces hadn't yet rearranged into the present configuration.
Not just that, but pluralism in Islamic Iran is much, much more pronounced than in any western so-called "democracy". Indeed, I am not aware of any such liberal "democracy" where - unlike Iran's religious democracy, one of the two main political camps is building its entire raison d'être around the sole will to appease and bow down to the nation's existential enemies, whose obvious goal is to annihilate the country and society.
The day when one of the major parties of governance in a western "democracy" makes it its stated goal to acquiesce to every single demand put forth by the Islamic Republic of Iran in view of a "normalization of bilateral ties", that day and only then will a western "democracy" be entitled to claim it is as democratic and pluralistic as Islamic Iran. In this sense, the DW correspondent's rhetoric, which reflects western regime-discourse on Iran in general, literally turns reality on its head.
Oh, and thanks to DW for admitting, by the same token, that elections in western so-called "democracies" have no credibility, given their oftentimes mediocre voter turnouts.
"The Guardian Council is the most influential body in Iran"
Really? I thought that in the "horrible autocratic dictatorship" that Iran is, it's in fact the Supreme Leader who concentrates "all power" in his hands. At least this is what western media, exiled oppositionists, and even domestic liberal fifth columnists are used to pretend. But since the Guardian Council is now in the news, let's just switch to saying it's the latter which has the biggest influence... I swear, even the Soviet-era Pravda was more mindful of preserving at least a semblance of consistency, compared to western media reporting on Iran nowadays.
"it consist of six Islamic clerics and lawyers"
It's six qualified Islamic faghihs (not just any cleric) plus six other jurists specializing in various legal areas, for a total of twelve members.
"and in the past they have disqualified almost all candidates, whether reformist views or women as we've heard"
And why not mention the fact that for candidates in Iranian presidential elections, there are no institutional selection mechanisms other than the Guardian Council, which in turn makes it the most normal thing in the world for said council to be forced to disqualify "almost all" of the hundreds upon hundreds of candidates, including 15-year old kids and other such completely unrealistic contenders, who simply register for fun?
Indeed, an Iranian citizen who wishes to run for presidency needs to have neither financial wealth (as is the case in certain western so-called "democracies", where candidates are required to deposit an amount of money superior to what many citizens can afford), nor to collect signatures from elected officials or other local notables (like in some western so-called "democracies"), which about 99% of citizens would be unable to do, nor to pass qualification processes internal to political parties, which again restricts de facto eligibility to a select few.
A typical case of keeping the audience in the dark through omission, another trademark of how news related to Iran are treated by western media.
"even candidates they had previously approved (...) Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was disqualified, somebody who had previously been president for eight years"
Yea, but guess what, politicians may radically modify their positions over time and even adopt unconstitutional views, start inciting against the system itself, become apologetic towards foreign enemy states and so on.
Ahmadinejad is in fact a prime example of a former official who operated a massive u-turn in much of his political outlook. So before trying to pass his disqualification off as some outstandingly authoritarian act of intolerance by the Guardian Council, better remind the context.
"what you also have to know about the Guardian Council is that it's not an elected body. Its members are directly or indirectly appointed by the Supreme Leader. And that is why it is criticized, both internationally and within Iran as being an obstacle to democracy"
While the six Islamic jurisprudents (faghih) are indeed appointed by the Leader, the other six jurists who make up the second half of the Guardian Council, are in fact elected by Parliament (Majles), based on a list of candidates prepared by the Head of the Judiciary (who is appointed by the Supreme Leader). So even if the Leader does play an indirect role in the choice of the non-faghih jurists, insofar as the Head of the Judiciary is appointed by him, the Parliament, and therefore the people in an indirect manner, also play a role in electing said jurists. Of course, DW will not want its viewers to know that popular vote is not without impact on the composition of the Guardian Council. And to say that the six non-faghih jurists of the Council are indirectly appointed by the Leader is technically incorrect - the candidates to this post are indirectly chosen by the Leader, but the actual selective appointment from among these candidates is done by Majles, i.e. indirectly by the people.
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whoever makes these fake letters needs to step up their game.
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Yemen.
May Yemen wins against savages of our times,Sauds,Emirati sheiks and their Israeli allies.
May Yemen wins against savages of our times,Sauds,Emirati sheiks and their Israeli allies.
با تمام مشکلات روحانی و دولتش٫ هم دولت
روحانی و هم خاتمی و میرحسین از احمدینژاد شریفترند. متاسفانه احمدی نژاد گهی بود که از دوستان مذهبی به ما رسید و هرکس دیگه چنین میکرد به سرنوشت قطب زاده میرسید
ای صاحب بصیرت
روحانی و هم خاتمی و میرحسین از احمدینژاد شریفترند. متاسفانه احمدی نژاد گهی بود که از دوستان مذهبی به ما رسید و هرکس دیگه چنین میکرد به سرنوشت قطب زاده میرسید
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The man was a hero everywhere... we miss him, even though we don't feel it.
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Āghā Raisi, after you are elected by absolute majority on June 18, please grace us with a "dream team" cabinet! Please do not include a single liberal (whether reformist or moderate) even if you might be tempted to do so in the name of national unity - these currents will not only have incurred a blatant electoral defeat, evidence that popular trust in them has completely faded, but for the past 8 years, they have caused so much damage to the affairs of the country due to their unbelievably incompetent and short-sighted policies that if it was not treason, it would have to go down in history as a seldom attained low. These westernized elements don't have a place in the coming administration, nor hopefully in the overall future of Iranian politics.
Let this upcoming administration be the ultimate nightmare for zionists, NATO imperialists, their clients and mercenaries, exile opposition, terrorists and separatists, as well as assorted domestic fifth columnists.
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An example of an ideally staffed administration to me could look as follows (I know, this cabinet will not materialize, but I'd only like to share my notion of a potentially outstanding cabinet here):
Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Hassan Abbasi
First Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Heydar Moslehi
Second Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Let this upcoming administration be the ultimate nightmare for zionists, NATO imperialists, their clients and mercenaries, exile opposition, terrorists and separatists, as well as assorted domestic fifth columnists.
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An example of an ideally staffed administration to me could look as follows (I know, this cabinet will not materialize, but I'd only like to share my notion of a potentially outstanding cabinet here):
Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Hassan Abbasi
First Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Heydar Moslehi
Second Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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