Who is our next hero
I want to reject this idea that some one has proposed it (I do not know who):" reformists do not have religion and the conservative part don't have a brain ". My new statement is " reformists do not have a political brain and the conservative part do not have glasses!"
If you review these 4 years you will find that in terms of politics, the conservative part has been very clever and they have reached to power step by step. On the other hand, reformists lost every thing step-by-step. The imperative problem of the conservative part is they need glasses to see their environments, technology advancement and people demands.
First of all, you should pay attention that politics is a disgusting game. In politics, power is the aim. When you are saying political man or women, you should be confident that he/she knows the rule of the politics.
4 years before, after the parliament elections, the conservative part understood that they will not be elected with the vote of people. Thereby, they started their political game. After Mr. Noori was disqualified and then he was sent to the jail and Mr. Khatemi did not support him at all, the conservative part realised that the president is a coward man who does not know the rules of politics. Alternatively, Mr Mohajerani resigned and most of the newspapers was shut down and Mr. Khatami did not take any action.
One years ago, the Guardian Council, organized an office in each city, this action had not been allowed in the law but again our president did not do any thing, it was obvious that the Guardian Council wants to disqualify the majority of the reformists. Reformists did not pay attention and therefore they lost the politics game since they do not have politics brain.
If the reformists had had political brain they would have not tried to put pressure on the Guardian Council to qualify the reformists who have been disqualified. It was obvious for most of the people that the Guardian Council would not pay attention since they had organized this procedure since about 4 years ago. They should have tried another way instead of sit-in and then trying to resign from the parliament.
Last week the 7th parliament was formed. I remember that 4 years ago, selecting the head of the parliament took about one month by members of the 6th parliament, which showed the lack of political correlation. On the other hand, for this parliament it tool only one week. I think those reformists need a good manager. Be honest, Khatemi is not a political man. If a political person was in his place, he/she would have had resigned at least 4 times. Mr. Khatami who is not a political man, compounded with the conservative part who are political, so the result was obvious: the reformists whom Khatami was representative for, lost the political game very easily. We made Khatami an idol and a hero. Mr. Khatami does not have this ability to be a hero or idol. I adore him but honestly he could not use the people who elect him.
Next year we will have another election for presidency. I think that this position will be taken by the conservative part since I think that their project will be completed by taking the presidency position. The conservative part has selected their candidate. On the other hand, it seems that the reformists do not have any alternative for taking the presidency position. They are facing the imperative problem, which is how they can stop the disqualification process. If Mr. Khatami had resigned 5 month before they would not have had this problem. Do you remember what he said? "I will not carry on an election in which most of the nominates have been disqualified. I will carry on a free election". Same as most of his statements he forgot what he said.
The reformists are in a critical time. If they lose this game again, they will lose everything. They should agree on a candidate who is famous among the people and also has enough power so that Guardian Council cannot disqualify him/her. who is he/she??
We don't need another hero. Heroes are for immature nations. Last time a lot of people thought Khatami was their hero, they sat back, relaxed and expected Khatami to do everything. Of course nothing happened.
We will stand on our own feet only when we get rid of this heroism culture.
I expected you "khaarej-dideh" guys out there in britain to observe the environment around you. Do British people have a political hero? why does the system in the uk work better than Iran?
(at June 8, 2004 11:36 AM)
Do you think that British politics is any different. The British government doesnt do what the country wants it to do, it does what its more powerful potential rials want it to do. Everything US do UK parliament support them, why? fear, its as simple as that. the UK Parliament is failing the poeple in its own way, just as the iranian one is. perhaps one is looked at as worse than the other but if you put both in their own context, there really is no difference between the two!
(at June 8, 2004 12:39 PM)
The reformists did not have any plans when they came to power. They even didn't expect to win the presidential elections 7 years ago. I totally agree with you that their weakness is lack of political experience, lack of planning etc.
Also, the reformists tried to establish the culture of respect for law, and I believe they did actually respect the law themselves. But the problem is firstly the law itself has a lot of problems. We all saw how the conservatives took advantage of the badly designed or vageous law to do whatever they wanted. Don't forget the most (not all) of the 'bad' things that the conservatives did were not illegal, they were 100% in accordance with the law. The problem was in the law and its definition that allowed the conservatives to take advantage.
Secondly, even if reformists respected the law, some of the conservatives did not even recognised the law. It's like trying to play chess with the gorilla! Instead of moving his tower, the gorilla will eat your knight.
Finally, I kind of agree with what Zarvan said. We need a good organiser and leader, we need political parties and civil establishments, but we don't need a hero. We are our own heroes! takbir!
(at June 8, 2004 12:39 PM)
Dear anon, you are right. There are flaws and weaknesses in every political system. But the sort of problems we face in Iran nowadays is a few orders of magnitude different than the problems that European or American people face in their own countries. As the persian proverb says "Miaane maahe man ta maahe gardoon, tafavot az zamin ta aseman ast"
(at June 8, 2004 12:44 PM)
Basicaly , i agree with you that we dont need a hero again .but i think that following a hero is part of our culture which we should demolish it .if you take a narrower approach you will find that in each part of our history we were looking for a hero .unfortunatly,most of the time when we understand that our hero does not have enough ability we demolish our hero as well !!
i wrote that sentences as a title in order to emphasis on this character .
(at June 8, 2004 01:23 PM)
I think the title of the post is very well chosen. It's such a good feeling to be able to talk about the issues that have been in our minds for such a long time, especially when it's about to be written in English it looks more challenging and automatically makes you think more about your every sentence.
(at June 8, 2004 04:06 PM)
I think the heroism culture has deep routes in our history. 3000 years of monarchy is one reason, 1400 years of Emam Zamanism is another reason. I'm not denying or supporting any religious belief, I just want to say that expecting a hero or a strong person to come and solve all our problems has taken us to this dead-end position.
(at June 8, 2004 04:08 PM)
End of all these political games regardless of being conservative or reformist is catching power. No matter what group believes in the fact that the actions must take place according to the law, they are competing to gain power. However, in most cases they forget their promises to people once they get to that point.
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