The government’s newspaper attacks Rouhani. The gist of the letter is that they disqualified him out of fear of his victory in the elections.
The government’s newspaper attacks Rouhani. The gist of the letter is that they disqualified him out of fear of his victory in the elections. The state-run newspaper Iran wrote that with the closing of the recent election case, Hojatoleslam Hassan Rouhani, who had been disqualified by the Guardian Council for candidacy in the sixth term of the Assembly of Experts, has published a detailed letter addressing the people, discussing the reasons for his disqualification by this council. He has raised issues that warrant reflection and examination from various political, discursive, and legal perspectives.
Rouhani’s sharp criticisms of the process of reviewing qualifications and, of course, the structure and performance of the Guardian Council have been raised while he was able to sit in the presidential seat for eight years thanks to the approval of this same legal body. It is obvious that the former president, having been twice qualified by the Guardian Council in the presidential elections and having participated within the framework of the laws, cannot consider the mechanism through which he came to power as entirely lacking in qualification. Rouhani must answer why there was no mention of rejecting the supervisory mechanism when he was being approved by the Guardian Council.
The essence of Rouhani’s letter is that the Guardian Council disqualified him out of fear of his victory in the elections, while the Iranian people, in the 2021 presidential election, despite the presence of Abdolnaser Hemmati and Mohsen Mehralizadeh as representatives of Rouhani’s and the reformists’ ideology, voted for a change in the current situation.