Iran: Rouhani’s 2nd Term Intensifies Mullahs’ Crisis

Iran has held presidential elections, but the elections were not free nor fair.  The election exposes how tenuous the mullahs’ grasp on power seems to be.

The results of Iran’s presidential elections, declared on Friday, in no way represent the will of its people. Hassan Rouhani’s supposed victory only underlines the failure of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in engineering the sham elections in the way he preferred. In fear of a nationwide uproar targeting the regime in its entirety, not only by the bussed supporters of any side, but more dangerously by an oppressed nation hunting for a rift within the regime’s senior ranks to storm the ruling theocracy, Khamenei was left with no choice other than giving up on Ebrahim Raisi, his desired candidate, and granting a second term to Rouhani.

Khamenei perceived the elections as an opportunity to unify his ranks in order to deal with the many crises he’s facing at the domestic and international level. The conditions, however, did not allow the ailing Supreme Leader and the Iran Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), his main implement, to engineer the process in the way he would have desired. It can only be expected that the deepening crises resulting from the elections will prod the regime closer to its downfall.

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