If the government were to hear the voice of sanctions, it would have heard the people’s message in the parliamentary elections.
Hassan Rouhani wrote in part of his statement that if the government were to hear the voice of sanctions, it would have heard it in the twelfth parliamentary elections. This kind of reaction, meaning boycotting elections, is more like a collective suicide, where out of fear of death, we resort to suicide and by self-harming, we bring the most extreme faction of the government to power and think that collapse is a form of change.
Not every change is good; a good change is one that leads to evolution, not destruction. A good change is one in which we are the agent and actor, not the one affected by it. In a change that leads to destruction, what collapses is Iran, not this faction or that faction, or this government or that government.