Does that mean you don't believe in the system anymore? How does it feel to have 12 unelected individuals decide your choices for you? How's that ghormeh sabzi tasting nowadays?
I believe in the system, but I also believe that there is no system yet invented where 80 million people can realistically vote for 80 million viewpoints. In USA, when people had to vote between Trump vs Clinton, I don't think it was a choice that realistically represented the viewpoint of 321 million people.
In Iran, election season is a hot season. Everyone talks politics and people are passionate. Voting turnout is relatively high. You should go to small cities, and see how aggressive campaigning is for city council elections, which they probably care more about than Presidential.
So, people believe in it, and I believe in my people. Even if I don't care about these candidates, a lot of them do.
Just for the record, the MKO should be ashamed of themselves, allying themselves with Israel. This is a terrible strategy. Even if you hate the groups in power inside Iran you should never sell out your people/country to the enemy. If change is going to come it has to come from Iranians, not outside groups.
MKO aligned themselves with Saddam Hussein when they were at war with our people. That was the bottom, they couldn't do worse than that. Allying with Israel is an improvement.
If anybody commits a crime in the west, even if it's dozens of heinous murders, they collect evidence against him, give him a lawyer who will fight for him tooth and nail, make all collected evidence known to him, put him in front of 12 of his unbiased peers, and give him an open and public trial. And if he's found guilty and sentenced to death, he will have the option of fighting his sentence all the way to the highest court of the country.
In the islamist republic of Iran, which poses as the manifestation of god's will on earth, a 28 year old clergy without a high school diploma, called Ebrahim Raisi, gets to send thousands of people to their summary deaths based on a few questions, the purpose of which the prisoners weren't even privy to.
So please don't compare the western courts with the bestiality and obscenity of the revolutionary islamist justice in Iran.
It was a revolution. Revolutionary times are different than peace times. That's realistically true in any country. In WW2, Americans sent their Japanese citizens to concentration camps. But that doesn't happen when now. But if there was a WW3, then we would again expect some difference in the way they apply their law.
The west history is full of blood, whether within themselves or with locals of the countries they colonized. Mass executions were not abnormal. But as they have been in a period of relative peace during our lifetime, we give them the benefit of the doubt. But if we take history as a whole, this period of peace time is a small sample.
For Iran, the revolution was a huge event. It was the last major revolutionary event in the last century, and we have no history change even this century either as impactful on a global scale as that. For us, it was a change from 3000+ years of monarchy. There was internal power struggle between groups that had been fighting for their ideologies for decades, from Islamists to cultists to communists, etc. Outside powers were working behind the scene to move the revolution to a path they desired, Americans & Soviets had great interest in the revolution's direction for their own cold war path. Iran could have exploded and split between ethnic and religious lines. Soviet could have easily swallowed the northern territories, giving excuse of helping the minorities. We could have fallen into a Syrian situation, or had the revolution cut down, like what happened in Egypt or with us during the 50s or the beginning of last century when the first Pahlavi stopped the advancement of the constitutional monarchy that was behind built.
