He wrote: “Usually, the hope is that after an election a country can move forward, the new leader’s agenda bolstered by a popular mandate. That is not the case with Iran. Hassan Rouhani’s second term as president was far from a win for Iran’s economy, Iran’s international standing, and certainly not for Iran’s people.”
It was well known that Rouhani did not have the approval of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and it was predicted that Khamenei would fix the elections to Ebrham Raisi, a Death Commission member that sent 30,00 members of the political opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) to their deaths in 1988.
In the end, Khamenei was too scared of public outcry and mass protests, as seen after the 2009 elections, to go through with his plan.
Safavi wrote: “Given the current circumstances at home and abroad, it is crucial for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to consolidate if he is to maintain his regime’s balance and weather out the near-daily crises that Iran faces. Khamenei's failure to manipulate the election so as to make usher Ebrahimi Raisi, his chosen candidate, into the presidential palace was a major defeat which does not bode well for his regime’s longevity.”
That is not to say that the public support Rouhani, they see him as a corrupt man who bankrupted the economy despite receiving sanctions relief from major countries, who has the blood of nearly 4,000 executed citizens on his hands, and who cannot account for his whereabouts during the 1988 massacre of the MEK.
Most Iranians sat out the elections in protest that the real opposition, Maryam Rajavi and the Iranian Resistance, were not allowed to run. Rajavi acknowledges that Iran’s problems will not be solved until the Regime is overthrown.
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