Why did Jalili remain silent about Zakani’s corruption?
Why did Jalili remain silent about Zakani’s corruption when Pezeshkian asked him if he would stay until the end, he said he would stay and not let you become president.
He deceived the people, and everyone who participated in the debate knew this, but except for Masoud Pezeshkian, no one objected to him.
Not even Saeed Jalili, who claimed to fight against corruption and lies.
Not telling the truth to the people did not just end with staying in the election.
Zakani and all those who were allied with him in the debate also knew that all the promises he made were fantasies and that even if he became president, he could not bring meat and chicken to people’s homes or give golden packages and solve absolute poverty problems in two or three months, just as Ebrahim Raisi could not.
Zakani learned to make two-month and three-month promises from his time managing Tehran’s municipality.
Perhaps because he thinks the people of Tehran forget and don’t remember, for example, he promised that a metro station would be added every month or every two months. Not only did this not happen, but the number of stations opened during Zakani’s time was the lowest in the entire history of metro construction in Tehran.
The period of Zakani’s mayoralty is also the most unstable period of Tehran Metro’s management. Since Zakani took office, the manager of Tehran Metro Operations Company has changed several times, and even once a young, inexperienced person with no significant managerial background was in charge of Tehran Metro.
When he was dismissed, many of Tehran Metro’s staff were dissatisfied, although these dissatisfactions were not very important to the mayor of Tehran, and worse, people’s lives are not important to him either, as he still hasn’t managed to create proper managerial stability in the country’s busiest and most crowded transport area.
Zakani had said he would collect the visible addicts from Tehran’s streets within two months, but he didn’t say that the opposite of what he said would happen and their numbers would multiply. Since 2021, he has intended to solve the housing problem in Tehran.
Since he became the mayor of Tehran, the housing situation has worsened considerably, and rental prices have multiplied. It seems that everything he promised to solve in Tehran has become several times worse.
For instance, he wanted to break the back of traffic but ended up breaking the backs of drivers, and traffic in Tehran got worse. Now, during peak traffic hours in Tehran, drivers are forced to clutch and brake more than before and even spend more time in traffic.
He promised that 20,000 electric taxis and vans would be launched in Tehran. In the debates, he said a thousand vehicles were ready for operation, but no Tehranian has seen those thousand, let alone 20,000.
Regarding buses, he promised to increase Tehran’s bus fleet to 5,500 buses. Three years have passed, and it hasn’t even reached 2,500. Maybe he thinks he will be Tehran’s mayor for life, just as he thought he had the power to choose the president.
He wanted to build the largest amusement park in Lavizan, Tehran, a promise for which no expert work had been done, and he just made the promise to Tehranis. The Natural Resources Organization came to the rescue of Tehranis and stopped it to prevent further destruction of Tehran’s environment.
Zakani promised to establish interest-free loan funds in neighborhoods. I doubt Tehranis have seen such a thing in their neighborhoods. He also said he would give a citizen’s wallet, for example, charging it with 200,000 tomans every month. He didn’t do this, and he wanted to give gold if he became president.
The promises of making Tehran smart were nothing but fantasies. It’s strange that in a city not yet prepared for the disabled, talking about an electronic city sounds like a joke. By the way, he hasn’t provided much service for the comfort and peace of the disabled in Tehran either.
But worst of all, since Zakani became the mayor of Tehran, even death has become expensive.
Now, an ordinary grave in the new sections of Behesht Zahra costs around 15 to 20 million tomans, and it has become so expensive that Tehran’s city council has said it will allow families to pay in installments. That means if you are from the weak and poor class of Tehran, it’s better to get the thought of dying out of your head, or your family will be miserable.
These were only part of the promises of someone who not only didn’t save Tehran from the problems he talked about but made them worse.
Now he was ready and claimed in his debates that he had come to save the people of Iran, the same person who was called a cover-up from the beginning, and it turned out he was a cover-up for Saeed Jalili, whose campaign teams now intend to campaign for him until the second round of elections.
Saeed Jalili is the same person who knew Zakani had made many empty promises to Tehranis and hadn’t fulfilled many of them.
Jalili knew that he was not telling the people the truth in front of the national TV cameras and that his claim to stay until the end of the elections was nothing but a deception. Jalili knew and remained silent about the deception happening a few tables away and said nothing.
Although even now he doesn’t say that Zakani and Ghasemzadeh Hashemi, with their predictably withdrawn candidacies, wasted billions of tomans from the public treasury, just as they wasted people’s time.
But now the people of Tehran have the right to decide whether they want someone who has never been honest with them to remain the mayor of Tehran or not, a demand that the Tehran city council should decide on before Zakani hides the whole truth from them, which he may have already done.
