Extremists are lying in wait
We need to remind a few points to the honorable representative of Tehran and associate professor of philosophy at Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s institute
Nabavian likely refers to the appointment of the government spokesperson, who has been attacked in a coordinated manner by well-known social media users, Kayhan newspaper, and some radical political figures since the news of her appointment was announced.
The pretext for the attack is that Fatemeh Mohajerani said during the elections in a speech, as a mother, we will not allow another Mehshad Shahidi to fall to the ground, we will not let a few totalitarians fill our streets with the blood of young people.
The representative of Tehran should clarify what is wrong with this statement and similar remarks.
Who wants another Mehshad Shahidi to fall to the ground? Who wants blood to be shed in a protest? This type of remark stems from a mindset that prefers to erase the problem and only be approved by politicians, analysts, journalists, and society.
Previously, there was also a discussion about the executive deputy of the medical university, questioning why in 2022 he talked about the removal of protesters’ eyes.
Issuing a general verdict of chaos or sedition for a series of events like what happened in Iran in 2022 blocks the path to proper analysis.
With such verdicts, there is no accumulated dissatisfaction or error that has occurred.
Everything that happens is a scenario from start to finish.
While waves of protest arise within the country, sometimes due to a long-standing wrong law, the 2022 protests after Mahsa, protests against a critical situation, the 2020 Khuzestan water protests, the sudden implementation of a decisive decision like the 2019 gasoline price hike, or the unanswered questions and numerous ambiguities of the 2009 events. Is every protest that occurs in our country a foreign scenario? In that case, we should read the funeral for the country because the opponent succeeds in disrupting the country every few years.
In this mindset, when an analysis is to be made, like what we read these days in Kayhan and its satellites or the waves started by well-known Twitter users, they talk about Arman Aliwardi and Rouhollah Ajamian, but remain silent about the Zahedan shooting, and the Kayhan writer allows himself to deny eye injuries.
Even now, when they want to mention Mahsa Amini or analyze an issue, they use words that conceal a kind of animosity.
The mindset from which Mr. Nabavian comes does not believe that there are roots of protest in Iran, and to make it easy for itself and erase the problem, it ends the matter by issuing a general verdict of chaos and uses this verdict as a benchmark to measure others against his criteria.
Another aspect of Seyed Mahmoud Nabavian’s statements is the warnings that were raised after the results of the fourteenth elections were announced. The possibility of crisis creation seems that the medical university intends to compensate for some past wrong actions like purging professors and students under the national unity strategy.
It is still unclear whether he has made agreements to solve the hijab issue and end police confrontations in governance or not. The issue of tension-reducing foreign policy is also on the table.
Any of these issues is enough for Mr. Nabavian’s ideological current to feel that the revolution has deviated from its path and something must be done.
The honeymoon of the government will soon end, and as in the past, the extensive organization of the state media, several news agencies, at least two newspapers, Friday prayer platforms across the country, especially in Mashhad, are supposed to return to pre-2020 settings unless there has been a genuine change in direction, in which case returning to factory settings is not ruled out but will be less intense because someone like the Imam of Mashhad considers himself quite independent.
We must see where the first point of confrontation between the extremists and the fourteenth government will be. Remember December 2017.