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Iran Midterm Elections Frustrate Enemies, Pave Way for New Islamic Civilization

Iranian elections have both a national and global impact, which is why Iran's friends and supporters eagerly hoped for its success — in terms of turnout, as well as the quality of those elected — because the world would descend into darkness without an Iran that is Islamic, independent, pioneering, and strong.

The 2024 midterm elections in Iran, which elected members of the Islamic Parliament as well as the Assembly of Experts (tasked with overseeing the office of the Supreme Leader), have resulted in over 40% turnout according to semi-official surveys, with official numbers to be released soon.

Various Persian-language Zionist media outlets, such as Iran International (which is not owned by Iranians – it was owned by Saudi Arabia before the diplomatic reconciliation between Tehran and Riyadh forced the channel to switch ownership), predicted that voter turnout would be less than 20%.

In reality, midterm elections for direct representatives get less turnout and less attention than presidential elections, perhaps with the exception of systems where the head of state is selected by directly-elected representatives, such as in the UK or Lebanon.

In comparison, American midterm elections have similar turnouts, according to recent polling by Pew Research. It will take a great stretch of the imagination for Zionists and western liberals to claim that Iran having a quite standard midterm election compared to many other countries in the world is somehow an “existential threat” to the “regime’s” survival.

However, the west is not subject to immense, well-funded psychological operations designed to discourage the people and promote pessimism about the Islamic system, mainly through the promotion of boycotts of elections.

The foreign-backed “revolution” of 2022-2023, comprised of a fringe group of violent nihilists who don’t make up a statistically significant portion of the population to even count, fizzled out after the lies behind their motivations were exposed, to the point where even now the medical advisor to the son of the deposed Shah admits that Mahsa Amini died of health complications and that no police beatings occurred. Yet countless innocent people lost their lives in the midst of this chaos fueled by fake news.

The person who broke the story, Niloofar Hamedi, went abroad to various media training courses led by CIA-funded NGOs and was pictured alongside various known CIA agents. She was arrested for associating with spies from hostile foreign powers. It is clear from how her story was written that she totally fabricated the “police beatings” premise. A full investigation titled “Women Life Fiction,” on how the entire color revolution of 2022-2023 — often dubbed the “TikTok Revolution” or the “OnlyFans Revolution” due to it solely focusing on the promotion of immoral social values, with no focus on the economic well-being of the country like previous protests were prior to being co-opted by violent provocateurs — was painstakingly put together by RTSG and despite its long length, it is well worth the read.

This “revolution” fizzled out, and within a year’s time, Iran pulled many moves behind the scenes which weakened many of its enemies, such as the diplomatic feat needed to bring Albania into line and get them to stop hosting the MEK terrorist group on its soil, reducing the wicked behavior of Saudi Arabia (by playing on these rich princes’ lust for money and power, knowing they should play ball with Iran to stay in power), and busting large spy networks. The US and Europe continue to be weakened by their economically suicidal sanctions on Russian energy resources and the Zionist regime is facing an existential crisis following the Al Aqsa Flood retaliatory operation.

With the weakening of its enemies, Iran has taken an even stronger position in the region as well as domestically. The increased international trade and investment activities under the Raisi administration have placed a glimmer of hope that Iran can escape the economic suffocation caused by sanctions and decades of liberal policies, corruption, and mismanagement.

This election thus was held in an atmosphere of Iran enjoying strength it has never had in the past, plus lack of domestic instability due to the 2022 riots long dying down, and the general public having disdain for the riots due to the fact that many innocent people were killed, and red lines were crossed when various immoral degenerates set fire to flags of the holy personalities of the Ahlul Bayt (as), often where the vandals would take pictures with some of their female friends removing their clothes down to their underwear. Even for those who are not particularly revolutionary or are even against the Leader, but still are attached to their religious values and beliefs, were alienated from supporting the WLF riot movement and thus caused the movement to finally die out with plenty of time before the election for the society to recover and reflect on the lessons learned from that confusing time period.

The previous presidential election in 2021 and the midterm before that in 2020 was mired by COVID restrictions, a 2021 heat wave, and propaganda that took advantage of the various economic and other problems that do exist within the country, but are falsely blamed on the Islamic system instead of the prevalence of sanctions externally and decades of following neoliberal capitalist economic policies internally. Rather than taking responsibility for their own mess, liberals and “reformists” unfairly and childishly point the finger at the Islamic and the Leader for the cause of all their woes. Despite having immense power for nearly three decades in Iran following the end of the imposed war in the 1980s, the sore loser liberals fail to take responsibility for the fact that liberalism only knows how to make usury-eating finance capitalists rich at the expense of the rest of society. This is the case around the world, but when you add in external sanctions, it amplifies the negative effects.

However, President Raisi has done more in a few years than what Rouhani did in eight years, or what the cumulative governance of liberal presidents did in 30 years. Just on the economic sphere alone, all trade markers have risen significantly. Exports, both oil and non-oil, have risen. Necessary trade agreements with neighboring countries and even major powers were signed under Raisi, while Rouhani wasted eight years licking the shoes of the west hoping they will give him some crumbs off the table. This is the difference between a responsible statesman and a beggar.

Which brings us to the uncomfortable topic of Iranian internal issues. We must put emotionalism aside, and like a doctor who is examining an emotional patient unsure if their symptoms are normal or something serious like cancer, the doctor must properly diagnose the illness even if the emotional patient rejects the truth and chooses to blame something else. With that said, I will only speak based on what I know about Iranian internal politics and not speak beyond my capacity. There are many issues that I will miss out on, but it is better to have a level head that seeks to make a proper diagnosis, than to get overrun by emotionalism, which leads to intellectual dishonesty, such as the liberals blaming Islam on the problems that liberalism has caused for Iran. They got three decades of liberalism, so why are they crying as if they haven’t gotten all their dreams?

Humble thoughts on the parliamentary elections in Iran and Iranian internal issues

When it comes to speaking about internal issues in Iran in English language media, there should be a balance.

Talking too much about them without any care can allow the enemies to have material for their propaganda. All countries in the world have their shortcomings, some more than others (some countries have roots that are Satanic, while others have roots that are centered around divine principles but naturally have their mistakes), but for the countries like Iran which all the arrogant powers are at war with, it is silly to make its internal issues the majority focus.

However, total silence also has a similar effect. The enemy can talk about Iran’s shortcomings and if we don’t address it, it also fuels their propaganda. However, even moreso, for Iran’s supporters around the world, they may get disheartened by it and lessen their support or totally stop supporting the Islamic Revolution.

Of course, it is not fair to imagine Iran as some utopia, and then when reality hits, they lose their loyalty. People should not think in terms of extremes, either it must be 100% perfect or I will stop supporting it. But, we must at least prepare non-Iranian supporters of the revolution for what they will see when visiting Iran so they understand that this is something natural, especially for those who are the holders of the purest of divine lights, which is the Ahlul Bayt (as). The bigger the responsibility, the more difficult it is. The purest divine light will attract pure hearts, but it will also attract those who seek to abuse this light for their own personal gain.

The health of the Islamic Revolution, whose power base is in Iran, affects the health and well-being of the entire Muslim world, and humanity as well. Iranian voters thus have a huge responsibility towards not only themselves but all of humanity, as our fate is partially in their hands. Therefore, those of us in the Muslim world and in the human family in general have a right to humbly offer some of our thoughts on the matter, for them to ponder upon and accept whatever percentage of truth there is in our incomplete and imperfect analysis.

  1. Putting Iran’s internal dynamics aside, it is an objective truth that the global Zionist network and the western liberal imperialists will not behave nicely to Iran no matter how much its liberal officials bow down and kiss the boots of “israel” and America. This was proven through the debacle and failure of the JCPOA, which almost sold out the country had it not been for the Leader to remove certain clauses. Iran got a handful of Airbus airplanes at best, and if it wasn’t for the Leader promoting domestic industrial output, the spare parts for the planes would not be able to be obtained. “israel” and the US literally masterminded the 9/11 false flag attack; created ISIS; killed their own president JFK; and many of their politicians were on the private island of Mossad agent Jeffrey Epstein where they raped underage children as part of a blackmail sting operation to make sure US politicians support “israel” no matter what.

    Whoever thinks that playing nice with these Satanic psychopaths will lead to them being nice to Iran is either naive or an honorless sellout. Therefore, vote based on what is best for the interests of Iran and the Islamic Ummah, instead of voting based on what is best to kiss the shoes of America and the Zionists.
  2. The majority of Iran’s problems, especially economic, stem from following neoliberalism and going against Islam. Don’t let these dishonest fitnegar, seditionists, or even centrist liberals convince you that Islam and the revolution are the cause of Iran’s problems. Iran’s problems started the moment Rafsanjani and his neoliberal technocrat system started to make Iran a copy/paste of American policies, and the worst parts of American policies, as not 100% of everything from the west is bad. Copy/pasting usury in economics, Big Pharma/Rockefeller medicine for the healthcare system (including following the WHO down to the last letter), Rockefeller educational standards (assembly-line education), promoting small families and having few children, etc. President Khatami would later build off the economic liberalism by introducing cultural liberalism, such as individualism, hedonism, materialism, and other forms of selfishness into the society. Islamic values were absent from their governing styles. The liberals should be honest and take responsibility for their own mess instead of passing the buck.

Our dear Leader was in a situation similar to Imam Ali (as) at Siffein, when the people of Kufa were fooled by Muawiya’s tricks and threatened the Imam to negotiate with Muawiya otherwise they would kill him! What was the divine representative of God supposed to do if the people’s hearts are not in the right place? Contrary to Zionist propaganda which either paints the Leader as a smothering tyrant or a powerless figurehead, he is neither. He strikes a perfect balance, because we are not Stalin to carry out bloody purges based on killings and poisonings. The revolution thrives when peoples’ hearts change organically, and sometimes it takes learning a hard lesson, like was learned with the JCPOA and the Soleimani assassination.

Aside from liberals who worship the west, there are also many decent and good religious revolutionaries, but they just don’t have a visionary approach to what the revolution can accomplish. They mean well, but they think it is sufficient for the Islamic world to have political and military independence from the west and that is it. The rest of the sectors of society are still influenced by American models, and usually the worst aspects of western culture and policies.

Therefore, it is important to elect people who are honest, decent believers who do not say one thing and do another, but also on top of having honesty/integrity, think big and don’t see the Islamic world as inferior to the west, and would not copy/paste the west in everything it does. If there are some good things from the west, sure, but that is after using their insight to determine what is good and what is corrupted, rather than just blindly looking to the west as a role model.

Much of the economic problems of Iran come from policies that mimic the western fractional reserve banking scheme (literally modern day slavery which goes against the anti-usury principles of Islam and Christianity), dollarization, and more. The head of the snake is the Iranian Chamber of Commerce. As a divergence, they use their soft power to draw attention away from the corrupted wealthy liberal elites and falsely deflect it onto the Islamic leadership. Liberals were upset that former central bank governor Abdolnasser Hemmati was selected as the opposition candidate in the 2021 presidential election. Hemmati was the entire liberal movement personified, mask-off and without any makeup. He was an elitist who looked down on the people, profited off their economic suffering, and implemented western-style liberal policies which widen wage gaps in the west and certainly would be even more severe in a sanctioned country like Iran. Hemmati was so smug and elitist, he responded to a picture of candidate Saeed Jalili meeting with a group of farmers by stating that we don’t want Venezuelan-style communism in Iran. Liberals understood that Hemmati was a mirror shown to their face of all what they really want, but never want to admit that is the case.

However, it is not enough to bash liberals, when revolutionaries also need to be qualified and have what it takes to implement the vast, untapped potential of the emerging Islamic civilization.

Believers who truly have the self-confidence to believe that the Islamic Ummah is its own civilizational pole, an emerging civilization-state, and that we naturally can be on top of the world, where if we craft policies independently, the rest of the world, Muslim or not, will see the benefits and successes of our Islamically-inspired policies and will implement some parts of it, even if they don’t accept Islam as their religion, just in the same way as the world has been copying the US (either by force or due to mental colonialism).

This visionary approach to the future of Iran and the Islamic world has been outlined by the Leader himself in his “Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution” blueprint. Iran’s political class should therefore be comprised not only of believers who have honesty and integrity, but have a visionary mindset and do not see themselves as inferior to the west, and that we must copy the west in everything except for politics and military. Developing a practical Islamic economics theory and implementing it into policy is very important, rather than copying the failed fractional reserve banking model (aka systemic usury) which was intentionally designed to be a form of global enslavement.

Another example of an independent policy can be establishing a medical system different from the Rockefeller model, which creates a harmonious balance between traditional/natural medicine and modern medicine — where medical students learn both traditional and modern medicine in the same PhD program — will create well-being for the people and eliminate pharmaceutical mafias. Moreover, a society based on devotion to the eternal (Allah) rather than devotion to the temporal (materialism), will be very attractive to the world whose hearts are empty due to godless materialism.

Instead of copy/pasting the west, Islamic Iran can lead the way for independent policies which are based on Islam and promote science and progress, but without the corruption and wicked agendas of the west which abuse/misuse science to intentionally harm humanity.

One recent example of an positive use of science and progress that not only helps humanity, but is an act of resistance against economic warfare, is Iran breaking the Swedish monopoly on special medicated bandages for a rare skin disorder called Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Many children died from this disorder due to sanctions preventing the Swedish-made treatment from entering into its borders.

The flag of Islam must be in the hands of those who think big and are honest with God, themselves, and the people. They must actually listen to the Leader, rather than just sit and nod while what the Leader says goes in one ear and out the other. We must not be like the people of Kufa who created as many obstacles for Imam Ali (as) as the cursed clan of Bani Ummaya themselves.

God willing, Iranians will have the self-confidence to vote based on their own interests and the interests of the Muslims, rather than just trying to suck up to the Satanic powers, and will do the best research they can to determine who are truly honest and sincere believers who have a visionary approach to establishing Iran and the Islamic Ummah as a leading civilizational-state of the world.

The whole world depends on a strong Iran. Just pure participation and a high number of people voting makes Iran strong, let alone the quality of the officials selected by the people.

Our dear nation should understand that today many people around the world are watching Iran…. Both our friends and those who are in favor of the Iranian nation as well as the ill-wishers of the Iranian nation want to see what you will do in these elections… make our friends happy and ill-wishers disappointed.

Imam Khamenei
1 March 2024

Iranian elections have both a national and global impact, which is why Iran’s friends and supporters eagerly hoped for its success — in terms of turnout, as well as the quality of those elected — because the world would descend into darkness without an Iran that is Islamic, independent, pioneering, and strong.

While there are some issues which are solely the business of Iranians to decide, other issues which determine the health of the Islamic Revolution are the business of those with the merit to offer humble advice and diagnosis because of the very dark and dangerous world that would exist without this revolution based on divine values. Ironically, those who rely on liberal identity politics who say “people who are not from X group cannot speak about X’s issues” have no problem with outsiders giving them advice, so long as they are white liberals and Jewish liberals from well-funded think tanks and from academics who are loyalists of imperialism and Zionism, an indication of blatant hypocrisy and only using such an argument as an excuse to silence valid diagnosis of problems in X country by those qualified to make observations and administer humble advice.

Contrary to propaganda and the sour grapes attitude of liberals, Iran does allow a wide array of different voices to participate in elections. It does not allow subversives who seek to undermine Iran’s sovereignty to participate in the elections. It is well known that Hassan Fereydoun (“Rouhani”) has a British passport, and a very popular TV series Gando was made based on very real documents and intelligence reports on how various Rouhani administration members met with and collaborated with spies from the West. One of them turned out to be a spy himself and was famously executed within the last year or so.

The silver lining is that eight years of the catastrophic Rouhani administration was a great learning lesson for those who thought that giving a chance to capitulation to the west in foreign policy and expanded liberalism in domestic policies would yield positive results for Iran. When the people demand such a thing, like Imam Ali (as) at Siffein it is hard to go against them. Thanks to God, this learning experience awoken many eyes and hearts, and the liberal “reformist” movement is practically without steam. There are many people in Iran — both religious and not-so-religious — who love the Leader, IRGC, the martyrs of the Islamic Revolution, but hate the officials, and recognize that capitalism and liberalism are behind much of Iran’s problems, not Islam. They will naturally see the liberals as a problem, as well as some of those who pretend to be religious and conservative for amassing personal gain and going against their campaign slogans.

Blocking of subversives from elections is not a unique thing. According to an analysis by Dr. Kevin Barrett, even the US purged pro-British political voices from their elections so as to keep their newly established liberalist republic on the path of establishing itself based on its unique principles. Why is it that Iran should tolerate what other countries do not tolerate?

The religious democracy in Iran is vibrant, unlike the fake liberal “democracy” of the west. The US is controlled by a two-party tyranny where both parties are funded by the same special interest groups and even the televised debates are managed by a private corporation with ties to the same special interest groups. Major political leaders are mostly puppets anyway, with little say in what goes on in Washington D.C., and when they do try to exercise some independence, something happens to them, such as assassinations or being limited to only one term in office.

The reality of US “elections.” (Photo: Stonetoss)

The Zionist media is exceedingly hypocritical in its attempts to promote pessimism and propaganda against Iran’s vibrant, free, and fair electoral process, meanwhile all of their politicians are puppets of the Zionist lobby, central banking cartels (and their dynastic owners like the Rothschilds), pharmaceutical mafias, the military industrial complex, and more.

As the fruits of Raisi’s policies that have led to more economic activity, trade, and exports than the entirety of Rouhani’s eight years combined slowly affect the Iranian people, more confidence will return and the effect of the propaganda will be reduced. With the presence of many independent religious revolutionary candidates, such as those endorsed by the independent Sobh-e Iran Front led by Ustad Ali Akbar Raefipour (whose endorsements won several seats in different provinces as of current reporting of results), the next parliament may also be a source of greater optimism due to a number of independent candidates and fresh faces getting elected.

The majority of Iranians still support the Islamic Revolution, regardless of various differences in viewpoints, opinions, and understandings of how to implement it. Aside from the election turnout, the presence in various rallies in support of the Islamic Revolution such as 22 Bahman, Quds Day, as well as religious events which draw out people who may not be fervent supporters of the revolution, show that the love of Ahlul Bayt (as) cannot be removed from the hearts of the Iranian people, and no amount of Gorbachev-like politicians and leaders promising McDonald’s and Pizza Hut (or in the modern times, Facebook and OnlyFans) will remove this fire of love for the saints of God from the hearts of Iranians. It is divinely impossible for this revolution to collapse and it will continue until the flag of monotheism and righteousness is passed to the divine awaited savior, Imam Mahdi (aj), and the Islamic world becomes the leading civilizational-state of the world.

Humanity should therefore rejoice that the flag of monotheism has not collapsed in Iran in spite of the pressure of psyops orchestrated by the Satanic powers who wish to take over the world and enslave all of humanity and create a godless, immoral global society without any beauty, justice, meaning, or love/mercy. What is happening in Gaza now is just a glimpse of how they will treat the rest of the world, for if they don’t kill and slaughter us, they will put us in invisible prisons of debt slavery, usury, and materialism which leaves the heart empty and numb.

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  • Ali Salaam

    Ali Salaam is the founder and editor-in-chief of Basira Press. Coming from a background of independent journalism, his journey of truth seeking led him to accept Islam in 2013. He has been published on Mint Press News, Crescent International Magazine, Khamenei.ir, and American Herald Tribune, the latter of which was shut down by the FBI. He created Insight-Media.co in 2018 in order to create a home for God-conscious, revolutionary artists to be discovered under one roof. Due to a lack of coverage of soft war issues in Islamic resistance media, he created Basira Press in 2022 to fill the gaps, doing so with the utmost respect for other outlets given that we are all on the same team striving for the same goal.

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