NCRI Staff
NCRI - As protest rallies continue to spread across Iran, state officials and media warn over regime’s dark future.
“The country is faced with a lot of super-challenges”, acknowledges Eshaq Jahangiri, first vice-president of Hassan Rouhani’s government, for the nth time, adding”we have challenges in different economic, social, cultural and political areas, both domestically and internationally. Restoring social assets is a crucial issue for us. But unfortunately, dialogue has been taken off the agenda and replaced by conflict instead, which is going to apply a heavy pressure on the society.” (State-run website, February 26, 2018)
Meanwhile, Mohammad Maljoo, an economist close to Rouhani, points to a “huge volume of interactions raised by people’s daily lives” as the driving force and underlying layer of recent protests, which by no means could be harnessed. “And if the political system is not going to reconsider its policies, we’ll definitely experience even bigger avalanches”, he adds. (State-run Iran newspaper, February 26, 2018)
Regime’s Former Science Minister ‘Moein’ points to dominating presence of Iranian youth in the country’s recent uprising and daily protests, saying “our country is faced with the issue of disappointment. Social harms are an iceberg only the tip of which is visible. We are a country of fault lines. But more than natural fault lines, we are faced with social and generational ones within our society. And the main reason for the country’s non-development is rooted in these same corruptions, distrusts and discriminations.” (State-run Jamaran website, February 26, 2018)
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