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The establishment media can barely contain its excitement over Iran’s newly elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, who is, “journalists” can’t stop reminding us, a “reformist.” But does his election herald genuine reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Will the Islamic regime stop making war with its own citizens? Will the mullahs make peace with Israel and the United States? As it turns out, there are genuine reformists and there are recipients of media adulation. At least so far, Masoud Pezeshkian looks much more like the latter than the former.
The media has certainly been energetically waving the pom-poms for Pezeshkian. The BBC explained Saturday that Pezeshkian “is critical of Iran’s notorious morality police” and “called for ‘constructive negotiations’ with Western powers over a renewal of the faltering 2015 nuclear deal in which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in return for an easing of Western sanctions.” Meanwhile, the Beeb explained that Pezeshkian’s black-hatted opponent, Saeed Jalili, “is known for his hardline anti-Western stance and opposition to restoring the nuclear deal, which he says crossed Iran’s ‘red lines.’”
The Economist put it more bluntly: Pezeshkian, it said, is a “reform-minded heart surgeon who wants talks with the West and women to have the right to dress as they choose.” Pezeshkian, said the Wall Street Journal, will be a “reformist president” and “ran on a platform of re-engaging with the West and loosening the country’s strict moral codes for women.” Not that Pezeshkian will have an easy time of it; PBS reminds us that he “faces a government still largely controlled by hard-line clerics.”
Readers might get the impression from reports of this kind that Pezeshkian is poised to be a rational leader who seeks peace with Iran’s neighbors and the world at large, and who wants to curb the Islamic regime’s hardline enforcement of Sharia so as to make Iranian society more humane and livable for women, and thus for all people. The Western media seems determined to portray Pezeshkian as someone Just Like Us, a man who, if he lived in Manhattan or Beverly Hills, would be a regular contributor to NPR, a subscriber to the New York Times, and as against nukes and pro-peace and feminist as the next guy.
This is, however, at best baseless fantasy, and at worst dangerously misleading propaganda. The Times of Israel provided some details Saturday that the major media outlets largely ignored. Pezeshkian “promised no radical changes to Iran’s Shiite theocracy in his campaign and long has held Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the final arbiter of all matters of state in the country.” This is not surprising. It’s easy for Westerners to lose sight of the fact that the president of Iran is not actually the man in charge; he is a functionary of the Supreme Leader.
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rick says
He believes in killing only every other Jew. That is considered a humanitarian in the Muslim world.
Keith O says
It won’t matter how sane and rational the president of Iran is, the simple fact remains that the country is controlled by the mullahs who are completely f*#ked in the head from all of that banging of the foreheads on the floor.
Iran will never be safe for humanity until those mudslimes are removed from power.
maria says
Yes, agree
Walter Sieruk says
That tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is based on the Quran with its Sharia law . Since that is the foundation of that Islamic tyranny no genuine reform is possible.
Furthermore, title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran” and also about the chief and head Imam, Ayatollah Khomeini, who had a strong hand in establishing this so called “Republic “
The Islamic Republic of Iran is an actual oppressive tyranny in every sense of the word. It even puts women under extreme physical and life threating duress to force them wear the hijab.
This should serve as a reminder the very actual essence of that Islamic tyranny, Ayatollah Khomeini had made in known that “The Islamic Republic of Iran would be Islamic and nothing but .He declared ‘What the nation wants is an Islamic Republic . Not just a Republic, not a democratic Republic, not a democratic Islamic Republic. Do not use the word “democratic” to describe it. That is the Western style. ” [1]
[1]`THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer, page 318.
Walter Sieruk says
That tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran, which has the very unfitting word “Republic” in its official title is so thoroughly horrenesously brutal, cruel vicious oppressive and even murderous even to its own people that no actual real reform is remotely possible.
That Islamic tyranny is to very wickedly crooked with demonic evil that it’s completely lacking any goodness at all as its foundation to ever genuine reform. For it would grant basic human rights to the Iranian people. Therefore that despot tyranny will never, as long as it last, be numbered as a veritable human rights respecting government.
As the Bible confirms “What is crooked cannot be made straight. And what is lacking cannot be numbered.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [N.K.J.V.]