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in the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, greetings to you, honorable compatriots , ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first row, the program that these days has an election flavor and the closer we get to the days of the islamic council elections, the more non-elections it will become . these days and we will be one of the most influential figures and analysts in the field of elections, and whenever there is talk of elections in recent years, one of the figures who have influenced the elections is the opinions of his friends and colleagues, mr. dr. gholam. ali haddad it is fair that i am the guest of safaah olan program tonight. hello again, i am at your service, mr.

in the name of allah, the most merciful, i am at your service and the dear viewers of the first page program. hello , i wish you good health. let's start with this question . the question is not a new question, but there have always been different points about it, different points of view. well, according to another famous saying, as you said , election days are important and participation is also important . at the beginning of this discussion, i would like to make a reference to the concept of nation and its relationship with elections. i explain

well, we say that we are the iranian nation, iran has a long history, the iranian nation is 7,000 years old, which has had civilization and culture in this part of the earth, and has had works until the end . now if someone asks, sir, what is this nation, whose nation is it? where is the nation, for example, a person knocks on the window of the people who are walking on the street, this is the nation, yes, this is part of the nation , but the nation is bigger than this , the nation is different, just like, for example, we do not know the street and all of iran, but we know that it is part of iran if we look at it from a satellite. we can see iran , is there a window that if you open it, you can see the whole crowd ? there is another question, now this is a philosophical discussion

for example, what kind of reality does this nation have in the sense of a collection of people, but in the end it is a reality. now , whatever philosophical interpretation it has, the nation will get away with it , and i mean, excuse me, even if we look at the whole nation from above with a satellite, they are not necessarily a nation, yes. nation is an abstract concept. rationality is a valid concept. i say that its philosophical discussions are cognitive discussions, but after all, it is like a class, a class composed of, for example, 30 students and a teacher, but it is not only that, a class is a concept that comes from the heart. . at all, let's say this when this nation

he feels that a nation is busy with his own work in normal times. one of them has a house, one of them has a school, one of them is a teacher , all the people of the nation live their lives, but sometimes the nation feels that it is a nation. for example, let's say there is a war. now as a nation, they are fighting like us in an imposed war in the 8-year war, which the nation was jealous of as a nation, they know that sometimes natural disasters will happen, there will be an earthquake, the nation

will feel that it is a nation, and at some point it will become a corona virus. do you remember that during the corona era, the nation said that the nation should come to the nation? yes, everyone felt that now is the time for the emergence of the nation. well, one of these areas of influence is political influence, and this role of the nation is a new role in our own history. in the era of tyranny, what era is it called? qajar and before that, what was the first and second pahlavi period of the nation. the effect of the nation as a nation does not play a role. previously, the word ``nation'' was not used

at all. in what period did the subjects say, in the safavid period, the qajar period, until the modern era, the word ``nation'' was not common in our literature in this sense, in the persian language. this means. this word is not sacred in the translation of the french nation and the english nation, the ottoman turks were called nation, and in this sense it entered a new political meaning , the subject does not have a political meaning, that is , the nation did not come from arabic. the turks use this word in front of the nation, which is made up of nasinalism and nasinalist, etc. turks use this word

in this new political sense. mion sultan looked at the subjects from above and the subjects from below sultan nagha he did it and the subjects had no right , subjects must obey , this is the political literature about the people, this word "subject " means that you have no role in politics, but the nation of the state is a completely new political meaning. that is, the nation has an effect on the government , the government has an effect on the nation, the nation , the government has a right to the nation, the government has a right to the nation, the famous saying of amir al-mu'minin in nahj

al-balagheh, he says the same thing, i have a right over you as a caliph. you also have a right to me. there, we are talking about the concept of the nation it is a new concept. i have seen that some writers and political thinkers of the new era are very sensitive about this concept of the nation and sometimes they say that our problem in iran is now the words of 100 years of professions. our problem in iran is that the nation is the nation itself. he still hasn't felt it, he hasn't felt it, he hasn't

felt it, he doesn't believe in his influence as a nation, now why did i say these preparations? make an impact this is a very important point , there is no need for this under normal circumstances, but it is an emergency there are some that are one. elections, i sometimes say that in normal times of governments, assemblies make decisions for the nation. in the elections of this nation, it decides for the assemblies , and the more a nation stands up to this influence and its own political role and implements it. it is higher, and in fact, with such participation, authority

increases, as the leader said, increasing authority leads to increased security, increasing security leads to all-round progress, so participation is not a simple trivial matter, it is not a compliment, it is a fact and i promise the supreme leader. for each other the validity of all these materials and many other things are so much emphasis on participation. now, from the heart of your words, a question arises for me that when people participate in the elections, this is the first step of influencing the people, and people should feel that this will has been fulfilled. the effect they wanted through through. it was put, maybe one aspect of it is that

, for example, people are looking for solutions to problems and economic and livelihood issues, and so on. another aspect might be political will, which is manifested in various different governments that have been in place for 20-30 years. 30 and 40 years ago, ruling and working go and come again a different government. with the previous governments, this was the way people expected , that is, whenever they wanted to put a government in place , it was 180 degrees different from the previous government . they also feel this, which means that this effect is possible. the right to choose and change

destiny should exist, but people should not feel it . how do you see this public perception of his participation in the elections? people at the polling booths to play a role in the elections to increase the participation of people's trust in the election executive and the government, that is, if people trust that their vote will be seen , it will not be ignored, even if it is highly likely that this person is the one they choose. he may not be very popular, i won't be elected, but more important

than the hope of being elected, the hope of being seen, the trust in the election management system, this is important , why did people not participate in the elections before the revolution, well, we are at the age of maybe 15. before the revolution, participating in elections never occurred to us he asked us to go to the polls because we did not trust him. we were living in a time when the king himself wrote in his book that when i became the king , let the same phrase happen every day. let me read. yes, he says that after my father

left, what happened during his father's time. i also say that after my father left, for a while , the work was done in the hands of some iranians, but in practice , part of it was done by the british embassy and the other part by the russian embassy. as i have explained in the book "mission for my country". in the morning , the advisor of the british embassy came to the relevant authorities with an electoral list, and in the evening of the same day the charge d'affaires of the russian embassy came with another list. this is shah's own confession, this is from the book of the white revolution , which i am quoting in this book , how was the hand of the first pahlavi era of reza shah , no one thought that he would go vote, now the documents are available to print

that he was the prime minister and from the court of timur tash. he telegraphed to dara province that they should become lawyers from every city and every province. this is the whole situation. then the shah who says here that the beginning of my government was like this, wants to understand that later i gave freedom . now that it is known that there was no freedom, he says that in the notes of sunday 21 khordad 46, he is now the court minister , yes, he writes in his notes that he spent the night with professor adel, the head of the people's party, who was the successor of alam himself, my successor, he was the head of the people's party, now he has become the minister of the court, professor adel, he has become the head of the people's party

, he spent the night with professor qadri. we talked about the election and the number. a lawyer that the future minority should have . 20 to 30 people are talking about the emperor. if these are 60 or 70 people, there is hope. what will happen and what will the people do? that is, he says that the king decided that 20 or 30 of you should be admitted. it had nothing to do with who was elected and who was nominated they vote i said he says the king. 20 or 30 people said bastoone, then he says that the names of the elected representatives of the shura assembly were revealed on saturday, august 14, and this was revealed, then he elaborated that the elections were not held well, even the war between the two parties did not work out well

, the goldsmith war did not work out well. then he says that the person in charge was so-and-so, and then he says, "why do we ruin everything? i don't know if it's my ignorance or my intention. several times before , when i had previously submitted petitions to mubarak , it was not acceptable. if the government apparatus thought a little more liberally. the disadvantages would be much less then he says, "why shouldn't you do something so that the people will really be interested in their fate? then on sunday the 15th, he says that this is all the talk of ulema ulema . then he says that in the morning i became honorable and the shah told him that it was in the news that two people against the government from balochistan were elected to the parliament. the next person says that i said that our country

has reached a place today due to his majesty's efforts, which cannot be compared with the country under the guardianship of the late emperor means that reza shah continued to live . the leader of the party went further than that, that is , he says that the injustice that was during reza shah's era has become worse than that during your era . you whitewashed him, but he maintained an appearance, for example, you are nothing at all, but there was a lot of fear and trembling, and this election situation was because people did not trust, but now in our country , the necessary condition for elections is that the people's trust in the government and the system is secured. that is, the leader of the revolution himself

says that the people's vote is a right and must be preserved. it should be seen and these noises that were found in 2008 and i don't know their names and that they were faked and so on. it was all a lie. i'm not saying that no person has cheated or that no city has had an incident, but that the system or the government wants to cheat has never happened in our system . the elections were not rigged . this is very important. it has already come to mind that this so-called fraud claim was raised in 2008. then saying that no, now we don't say that it was rigged , it was a violation, then, for example, saying that it was a violation, the condition that we are satisfied with is that the election

be held again, and when it is held again , for example, let's assume that so-and-so is not in the election, that is hey, the so-called discussion of fraud went to the point that basically, for example, a person shouldn't exist at all . i talked about 88 details in this. tv, we don't want to mention the calamity and the head of this wound is not the poem, the point is that these quotes are, in any case , the quotes that are from this festering wound , i don't want to open the accusation of cheating the system now, but they themselves know that the system does not cheat. it is important, but the fact is that the increase in participation is a multi-cause phenomenon. it means that it is necessary for the people to have confidence in the integrity of the elections , but there are other reasons, for example, people

they are upset about the high prices, they have the right, their livelihood is difficult , there has been inflation, there have been sanctions, there has been the problem of expensive housing, this is not something we want to hide. let 's say it exists, well, some people are upset under this pressure and some may say, sir, it is useless, this may happen again, that is, if the government can do something to reduce this feeling of livelihood pressure , now it is close. they have been doing their work for a year and they have been doing this project of electronic distribution of goods, so now the government is helping and

they are giving 16 items of goods to those who are subsidized, that is, to 70% of those who are subsidized. they say you should go to 200,000 stores to get subsidies. to connect to an internet network , they say, go to the store, don't ask for the price , take your share without paying , take it, inflation is expensive, well, this service will reduce the pressure, but if there is pressure, eventually people will be dissatisfied. another issue is that they may be dissatisfied with the functioning of the parliament. people say that this parliament is, for example , the caucasus parliament. controversial parliament is not a service, the parliament is not an untangle, or if the management of the executives, for example

, are unhappy, or because of discrimination, or because of financial corruption , all these things affect the people's discomfort because they do not come to the fund. other than that people may be disappointed. this disappointment will make him not participate in the elections, and this disappointment happens to be one of the things that the enemies of the iranian nation are constantly insinuating on social media. it means that one of the duties of this virtual space, which is in the hands of the enemy, is forgiveness, which is in the hands of the enemy. it is that nothing positive is seen in this country, every straw becomes a mountain, and lies and slanders

, except mashaallah, that people will consider everyone as a thief, consider everyone as corrupt, consider everyone as a traitor, and say that it has been ruined . this is the importance of elections and their effect do not pay attention all this is effective and the leadership in their speeches, including in the speech last saturday, their speeches were to inform the people, to inform the nation, to create hope. this is something that radio and television can be very effective, and another effective factor in elections that can affect participation is the way the guardian council makes decisions.

if he is overly strict, goes beyond the law , or acts according to his taste , well, this affects the participation. do your duty properly, it's good, but if god forbid, he's too strict, it won't work. another effective reason for increasing participation is that some people do not accept the results of the election, that is , whenever the election was in their favor, they say that the election is fair, and when the election is against them, they say that it was rigged.

when they don't vote, they say it's rigged. the election was right , this kind of playing with the election results confuses the people. these are some of the causes and factors. yes , you also mentioned that the people need to participate. the people want the people to feel that the parliament is effective, the parliament is a good parliament, well, we have a series of interpretations regarding the parliament and the government in the rumors of the people. men, sometimes we hear that it may be made by the media , virtual space, or anything else, or even a joke that is common among people, but as someone who was present in the parliament for two terms and you were the president for four terms, i thought that from in the sixth parliament, you were present for a period when the parliament was also managed

. it means that the councils may have high peaks like a sine graph we don't have that, but have you seen the general trend in the parliaments, that our parliaments have grown in terms of the level of understanding, in terms of performance , and everything else? no, i don't believe it. that the curve of the parliament is always saudi , no, i didn't always say that, yes, no, i may have ups and downs, but in general, not in general, we had one session very good, the next session was very bad, and depending on what kind of discourse dominates the parliament, as the famous saying goes. been. according to my interpretation or according to my opinion

, the meetings were ineffective, full of controversy and conflict, which did not do anything important for the people. there were also very revolutionary, efficient and useful assemblies, for example , we consider the first assembly after the revolution to be a good assembly. like mr. darsh , he was a representative, and chamran, the martyred chamran , was a representative of that parliament, that is, prominent figures of doneh drasht , as the famous saying says , the most historical figures

in the parliament. did the parliament should be evaluated separately, but in any case, the parliament's performance is effective in increasing participation , like, for example, about the councils, some people think that the first councils, because probably now their opinion is that people's participation in the second council elections did not perform well. yes, it is the same now. the discussion you raised about the council elections, well, we witnessed that the council elections were held. the first council was formed, for example, in tehran.