Iranians will never forget what happened 4 years ago when the president the Islamic Republic cheated in the election and Ahmadinejad was the winner. Later on, many young activists who were seeking their rights and wanted their votes to be counted were arrested, executed, tortured, raped and killed in prisons and even now there are many journalists, lawyers and activists in prison only because they shouted for rights. Needless to say, Musavi and Karroubi are also imprisoned in their houses. Ahmadinejad is not a figure that the supreme leader would agree with. On the contrary, he is the one who disagreed with, and many times didn't listen to Khamenei.
Here we are, again with a presidential election. Ahmadinejad's candidate, Mashaee, for whom he went to the ministry to register his name as a candidate was disqualified for candidacy and yet there is no news where Ahmadinejad is.
There are 8 candidates in this round of presidential election. All have been announced qualified by a committee consisting of old guys with the average age of 70. This tells that they are all in the line of Islamic republic principle approved by the supreme leader. People are supposed to vote for one of these who have been in charge at times in high rank positions.
I personally think that there is no hope for the improvement of Iran at this stage. Out of these 8, 5 are totally fundamentalists and only 2 are reformist as they call themselves. Interestingly, even the reformists are conservative and fundamentalist at a general level because otherwise they would have been disqualified by the committee and the supreme leader.
In the debates among the candidates, which have been quite short and in a limited time, they talked about their plans. To me none of them had any interesting plans and ideas. All of them had emphasis on the Islamization which is a big negative in my opinion and it means Iran is going even more backwards. Perhaps the reformists would be a help to stop the dissatisfaction of people to some extent, while the fundamentalists are making a Saudi Arabia of Iran. Interestingly all of them agreed with filtering the internet, which is a huge problem in Iran now, for young people. The reformists might be a bit more lenient in foreign policy but in the end it is the supreme leader who decides whether we should have relations with the US or not. Therefore, it won't make a huge difference who the president is gonna be, the dictator remains the same.
I see no hope...
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