{"id":21972,"date":"2021-04-29T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=21972"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T09:51:10","slug":"irans-presidential-election-has-no-candidate-and-may-have-no-voters-but-thats-not-even-the-weirdest-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/04\/irans-presidential-election-has-no-candidate-and-may-have-no-voters-but-thats-not-even-the-weirdest-part\/21972\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Presidential Election Has No Candidate and May Have No Voters, but That\u2019s Not Even the Weirdest Part"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><p>There are just two months until the presidential elections in Iran, but the regime still hasn\u2019t officially announced any candidates. While the <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/tag\/election-boycott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election <\/a>is essentially a sham, with all candidates approved by Supreme Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2020\/10\/24\/who-is-ali-khamenei-iranian-regime-supreme-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ali Khamenei<\/a> and the vote rigged, it feels like taking much longer to tell the public who is running only displays this loud and clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the lack of candidates isn\u2019t the only thing that\u2019s different about this election. Many Iranians, wise to the facts about the political process in their country, are planning to boycott the elections altogether, following a call from the Iranian Resistance, and have made their position clear in numerous protests this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make the election even stranger, 225 Iranian MPs wrote a letter to Chief Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/iran-who-is-ebrahim-raisi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> asking him to run, but many believe that this was done at the behest of Khamenei because Raisi as president would allow the Supreme Leader to consolidate power further. (In 2020, he rigged the parliamentary elections by disqualifying most of the candidates from the so-called reformist faction in order to reduce the power of current president <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/09\/24\/hassan-rouhani-crimes-iran-mek-1988massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hassan Rouhani<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What would President Raisi mean?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Most likely, if he became president, it would mean increased suppression of the Iranian people, with protesters facing particularly brutal treatment. We can guess at this by looking at his record as Chief Justice, during which time sentences of prison time, torture, and other inhumane punishments have increased against dissidents and minorities. And, of course, his role on the death commissions during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1988 massacre<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With millions now expressing their hatred of the regime for its failure to control various crises, including the pandemic and the economy, and even saying that the regime used<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/coronavirus-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> COVID-19<\/a> as a shield against protest, Khamenei needs Raisi. He thinks that the only way to keep power is to stop protests, which in his mind means increasing the penalties for it, from long prison terms to the fear that you could catch a deadly disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran News Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/irannewswire.org\/khameneis-iran-elections-impasse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cIn the end, we have to see whether Khamenei is powerful enough to install his choice of president. After all, the nationwide protests in 2018 and 2019, when thousands chanted for Khamenei\u2019s downfall, diminished his strength to a large extent\u2026 Whoever comes out of the ballot box, one thing is certain. Nothing can stop the millions of seething Iranians from taking their country back from the ruling clerics.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are just two months until the presidential elections in Iran, but the regime still hasn\u2019t officially announced any candidates. 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