Spring of freedom

Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian, member of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) A member of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) acknowledged on Monday that people are increasingly frustrated and are literally cursing regime official wherever they appear in public. Describing this  phenomenon  to other Majlis members during an open-door session, Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian said, “We need a closed-door session to be able to say things we cannot talk about in an open-door session.” “There are some things that, due to the reactions it could create, cannot be said in public. People are really having problems and wherever they see us, start cursing us and calling us bad names… people are unhappy. They live in poverty while we are paid a few million tomans (referring to the Iranian currency) and we are not happy, let alone the people who get a fraction of this amount!” Sabbaghian added. Explaining an encounter he had with a woman in a market, he said this woman approached him and said “I have to ...

Iranian regime MP Mohammad Dehghan Mohammad Dehghan, a member of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament), revealed more details of the ongoing feuds and infightings between rivaling ruling factions. “The situation of the country is not good and some of our colleagues in the Majlis believe that if the government dissolves today, it’s better than tomorrow,” Dehghan said. “A path that goes through the impeachment of the president through the Majlis will have very heavy costs and it might cause instability in the country. The final decision will be up to [Iranian regime supreme leader Ali] Khamenei, and until now, his perspective has been that the country should not be destabilized,” Dehghan further said. Dehghan’s remarks come at a time that rivaling factions in the regime are at each other’s throat over various critical issues, including the fate of the nuclear deal forged with world powers in 2015 and the pending ratification of anti-money laundering rules, a requirement that ...