Iran presidential election: Rouhani's re-election only ensures long-term internal conflict
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The results of the opaque and undemocratic presidential election that Iran held on Friday are in no way a representation of the true will of its people, who made it clear in the past weeks that their real desire is regime change.
However, Hassan Rouhani's mandate for a second term as president is significant nonetheless.
First, it demonstrated that the infighting in the regime's upper echelons of power for a larger share of the country's riches has reached unprecedented scale. And second, it underscored Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's mounting fear of social uprisings and rising influence of opposition forces.
What will ensue is more of what we've seen in Rouhani's first term: a broken economy, human rights violations at home, terrorism abroad, and tumorous crises spreading across the regime's hold on power.
Maryam Rajavi, president of National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the outcome of the elections as a widening rift in the regime's leadership, which will lead to its ultimate demise. "Rouhani's second term would only entail growing crisis and a more intense power struggle," Rajavi said. "Crisis has precipitated at the leadership level of the religious fascism and would continue until the downfall of the regime of the velayat-e faqih (absolute rule of clergy)."
However, Hassan Rouhani's mandate for a second term as president is significant nonetheless.
First, it demonstrated that the infighting in the regime's upper echelons of power for a larger share of the country's riches has reached unprecedented scale. And second, it underscored Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's mounting fear of social uprisings and rising influence of opposition forces.
What will ensue is more of what we've seen in Rouhani's first term: a broken economy, human rights violations at home, terrorism abroad, and tumorous crises spreading across the regime's hold on power.
Maryam Rajavi, president of National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the outcome of the elections as a widening rift in the regime's leadership, which will lead to its ultimate demise. "Rouhani's second term would only entail growing crisis and a more intense power struggle," Rajavi said. "Crisis has precipitated at the leadership level of the religious fascism and would continue until the downfall of the regime of the velayat-e faqih (absolute rule of clergy)."
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