The Necessity of Removing the Governor of Isfahan
The Necessity of Removing the Governor of Isfahan
Recently, the dismissal of Shahram Dabiri, the Parliamentary Deputy of the President, received widespread attention and sparked numerous discussions.
Of course, my intention here is not to delve into that matter, but it can be briefly mentioned that Dabiri did not commit any illegal act and did not neglect his duties.
That is, if we don’t attribute the false denial from his office to him.
Nevertheless, Pezeshkian did not accept his negligence or even carelessness and dismissed him.
Ironically, this method of Pezeshkian in dismissing an old friend can serve as a model for all statesmen to be stricter with their friends and avoid leniency with appointed managers.
This, of course, is a method that one cannot expect to be realized much, because unfortunately, most government managers neither have the courage to resign nor the audacity to admit mistakes.
The path of dismissal is also not taken in practice due to the usual justifications of sensitive conditions and the lack of suitable replacements and many other things.
I said these to get to the headline of this article.
In the same days of the controversy over Dabiri’s trip to the South Pole, news broke of deliberate sabotage by a group of individuals in Isfahan on the water pipeline from Kouhrang to Yazd.
The images that were broadcast showed the significant damage caused to the country, resulting in outcomes such as water cuts in Yazd and traveler confusion.
Besides these, the financial loss of this illegal behavior is estimated to be in the tens of billions of Tomans.
Regrettably, this is not the first time such a criminal act has occurred in this province.
Yet, I did not see in all the news and analyses about the reasons and how this illegal behavior occurred, the repeated statement that legal action will be taken against those who attacked the pipeline and disrupted security.
The head of the judiciary in Yazd, of course, said that the judiciary is pursuing this matter, but well, you should consider this alongside the words of the representative of Yazd who said it has been repeated more than 50 times in the past decade, and the water transfer pipelines of Yazd province in the east of Isfahan province and other facilities have mostly been attacked collectively and with heavy machinery.
Very well, if the first time such behaviors were legally addressed, would the current situation prevail in the region today or not?
Let’s not forget that one of the points that has always led to judicial rulings in recent years’ protests in the country is the transformation of protests into riots and the disruption of the community’s psychological security, and what does this act lack in this regard?
What is the act of letting drinking water, intended for fellow citizens, flow into the soil and air?
Besides this, I have not seen anyone say that the governor of Isfahan, as the highest political and security authority in this province, should be removed due to his mismanagement in this matter.
You might say this is an exaggeration, but according to the resolution of the Supreme Administrative Council in 1998, the governor is responsible for establishing and maintaining order and security in the province and providing the means for implementing general security and law enforcement plans and policies, decisions of legal authorities, security directives and notifications, and preventing and dealing with border issues and supervising and monitoring the province’s water and land borders.
When an openly illegal act occurs in a province and then it’s as if nothing happened, I think we should move past this emotional space where everything is attributed to angry farmers and thirsty lands and ask the relevant officials that if they cannot properly fulfill their duties, they should resign.
They might argue that the next person won’t be better than us, but I think there’s no problem with that.
You go home and watch the next water fountains from there.
Instead, allow the country’s legal arrangements to be established.
With this irresponsible approach that has been adopted, and every day in some way, one day in hijab text messages and another day in canceling legal concerts in this province, the country’s laws are mocked, one cannot expect an improvement in the situation, therefore, the removal or resignation of the governor of Isfahan should not be considered a strange demand.
Believe me, in some countries, managers are dismissed with the slightest negligence.
Iranian officials, however, often find themselves in an inverted state, being demanding and preaching.
With this situation, one should read the funeral prayer for the government, and perhaps we have to return to the era of Thomas Hobbes and Jean Bodin and start anew by saying our most important demand is the establishment of a government whose laws are obligatory to obey across the country.