Democracy is not the dictatorship of the majority over the minority.
If 80M want to wear hijab let them , it does not give them the right to force the other 20k to wear one too.
Specious contention. In every country, numerous laws have millions of detractors and opponents, yet it is mandatory for citizens to comply with them. Indeed, in a democratic system everyone will be forced to submit to the law, whether or not they agree with it is irrelevant.
Beside, i think you know those numbers are far from the reality in Iran. I am sure many here got the true impressions of where many of Iranian really stand after the 2009 election protests.
You mean the foreign-backed 2009 riots that were answered by massive counter-demonstrations of unprecedented scale by the Iranian people?
Was he running against a reformist ? What real alternative did the people have ?
Stop posting blatant falsehoods.
Iran's democratically elected President, Seyyed Ebrahim
Ra'isi ran against not one but two reformist competitors at the 2021 election, and scored a resounding victory:
1) Abdolnasser Hemmati from the
Executives of Construction of Iran Party.
About the party:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executives_of_Construction_Party
The Executives of Construction of Iran Party [a] (Persian: حزب کارگزاران سازندگی ایران, romanized: Hezb-e Kārgozārān-e Sāzandegi-ye Irān) is a reformist[8] political party in Iran, founded by 16[5] members of the cabinet of the then President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in 1996.[7][3] The party is a member of Council for coordinating the Reforms Front.[8]
2) Mohsen Miralizadeh representing the
Will of the Iranian Nation Party.
About the party:
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راه ملت؛ تولد حزبی جدید در 'بازار شام' اصلاحطلبان
Eslāh-talabān (highlighted in red) means 'reformists' in Persian.
@K_Bin_W @mulj @hussain0216 @TheNoob @_Nabil_ @DF41 @PradoTLC : Please see above brothers, the quoted user has been publishing disinformation. Not one but two reformist candidates ran at Iran's 2021 presidential election against Ebrahim Ra'isi. Elections in the Islamic Republic have been as pluralistic as it gets.
The last reformist who ran , Mousavi , is still in house arrest.
Wrong. Since the formation of that political camp, which is nothing but a fifth column for Iran's existential foreign enemies, there has not been a single election closed to reformists.
Like : a constitution, bill , or laws that protect basic human rights . That can be changed only by special majority . So even if 80% of the people want to shut me up , they cant , cause my freedom of speech is protected by the constitution,
Iran has an elaborate constitution as well as laws protecting basic individual rights.
Not to mention free press .You do want people to know what and who they are voting for. And people can not vote freely if they only get their news from "approved " government news sites .
Iran has free media. Liberals in their own media and even on national television during open debates have called into question the existing dress code in recent days. Latest example, the live debate featuring former mayor of Tehran, Qolamhossein Karbaschi, a reformist:
Was Raisi running against a reformist ? What real alternative did the people have ?
The last reformist who ran , Mousavi , is still in house arrest.
False, seyyed Ra'isi faced not one but two reformist candidates at the 2021 presidential election: Abdolnasser Hemmti and Mohsen Miralizadeh.
And false again, reformist candidates were allowed to run at every election held in Islamic Iran since the 2009 riots.
Not to mention that the PM in Iran is not the top figure,
There's no "PM" (Prime Minister) in the institutional order of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The quoted user does not master the elementary basics of Iran's political system yet is making far reaching and baseless statements on the topic.
but the supreme leader is , and he has not changed for 30 years.
The Supreme Leader is elected by the Assembly of Experts, which is itself democratically elected by the Iranian people. Moreoever the Leader does not manage day to day executive tasks, that's the government's responsibility. The Supreme Leader issues general guidelines, which administrations by the way often fail to put into practice, often deliberately.
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