A Different President
What is the secret of success and victory of Masoud Pezeshkian in the electoral marathon and his rise from the seat of representation to the top of the country’s executive pyramid? And above all statements and options, which approach, attitude, method, and strategy is this success and achievement indebted to? Perhaps you might ask yourself now what the point of such a question is, as he is currently the Prime Minister and the answer to this question does not reveal any new issues. Whether we like it or not, he will be the President of Iran for the next four years. But the point is to have a proper and logical understanding of the President’s performance and approaches in various fields and spheres, and as a result, to take the necessary and essential reactions to understand his actions, facilitate consensus, and promote universal cooperation in advancing government affairs towards the progress and development of the nation. Answering the aforementioned question sets the roadmap for our future assessments.
Since the days of the election campaign, I emphasized on a point with double emphasis, which was that beyond any slogans and ideologies of the supporters and like-minded individuals in the election campaign, they should first and foremost recognize the personal, verbal, and behavioral differences of Masoud Pezeshkian and view him in the framework of his individuality and identity, and adjust the electoral and advertising actions accordingly.
In the usual political atmosphere of Iran, which has suffered from personality cults, such discourse was accompanied by negative interpretations and negative assumptions that have neither come nor gone.
Let’s not make a caricature of physicians and not speak in a way that he is a unique entity and everything depends on him, while others have no role or place in assisting him and will not have, even though the intention was to accept his personal and behavioral differences and his specific speech pattern regardless of positive or negative evaluation compared to his predecessors, so that on one hand, with the support and potential of his unique personal capacity, we can maximize our attraction to him, and on the other hand, understand and acknowledge that he is who he appears to be, and have realistic and systematic expectations and demands from physicians, rather than falling into illusions and strange changes, and not delude ourselves into thinking that the possibility of solving long-standing problems and challenges by him is not just a futile mirage.
The first press conference of the fourteenth government’s head of state with the media and the consequential reactions is exactly different from not considering it, like a confused puzzle, where actors of various spectrums have become allies to their own assumptions and desires, pointing out the lack of conformity with established norms and taking their criticisms and objections, while in the hardware aspect, the first press conference of Masoud Pishkian as the president was distinguished by acceptable standards, and the media’s dignity in maintaining its comprehensive and inclusive scope of various tastes and interests in holding a systematic and prestigious session.
In the software aspect as well, regardless of jokes and common sayings and the background of the president’s previous speeches, which did not have any remarkable and asymmetric differences, he was actually full of intelligence and diplomatic acumen, especially in questions related to foreign policy and in facing international media. Pishkian, with special delicacy but in a colloquial language, diplomatically answered challenging questions that even the slightest slip could have had serious consequences.
In the context of using the term ‘brother’ for Americans, which has been criticized by the opposition spectrum of the government, they set aside the President’s preamble and ignore the obvious and comprehensive condition and obstacle, and they do not pay attention to friends who have sharply criticized the use of the term by others. What is important is the action, effort, and achievements of the President, not the verbal usage that he has repeatedly used in his literature for various domestic and foreign officials and his friends, which is part of his inherent and personal behavior regardless of any verbal discount or diminution.
In any case, if we accept the differences in the medical professionals’ established behaviors and discourse, regardless of these controversies and temporary criticisms, it becomes logical to manage our expectations and we can achieve a logical harmony and a constructive path for the advancement of the country and the nation based on objective reality and unity in diversity.
