Do not interpret Elias Naderan’s resignation from the parliament; just read the resignation request.
Elias Naderan, a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, publicly requested the parliament’s presidium to accept his resignation.
He was previously a member of the Revolutionary Guards and has served four terms as a parliament member, with many of his controversial positions making headlines in Iran for years.
In his speech today, he stated that according to the parliament’s internal regulations, the presidium must read the resignation request and is not allowed to interpret it.
This May, he published a critical letter against Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, stating that he has managerial weaknesses. Elias Naderan also criticized the engineering in the arrangement of specialized committees.
In May this year, the newspaper Etemad reported that at the very start of the parliament’s session, there were rumors about Elias Naderan’s resignation. It seemed that Naderan was upset about the lack of attention to his status and position as a veteran representative in the arrangement of the parliamentary committee chairmanships.
At that time, three members of the parliament’s presidium denied Naderan’s resignation.