For those Western appeasers who still cling to the dream that the new Iranian President – Massoud Pezeshkian - is a moderate, his speech in the Majlis (parliament) in Tehran on August 21 will have dashed their hopes. Displaying not the slightest hint of irony, Pezeshkian announced that each member of his newly appointed Cabinet had been hand-picked and vetted, not by him, but by the Supreme Leader, the 85-year-old and increasingly irrational, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His confession has caused outrage in Iran, where the sham election of Pezeshkian was based on the phony pledge that he would be a reformer, casting aside the harsh oppressions of his predecessor, the late Ebrahim Raisi, who was dubbed ’The Butcher of Tehran’ for his notorious role as an executioner. Pezeshkian has spilled the beans! It is now abundantly clear that nothing has changed. There was a widespread boycott of the presidential poll by the 85 million Iranian population and now their skepticism has been confirmed by Pezeshkian’s revelation about his counterfeit cabinet.

Under the theocratic mullahs’ regime, the institutions of governance, from the Parliament and the government itself, to the judiciary and even mechanisms like elections, law, and the Constitution, are all completely bogus. There is no semblance of democracy. And yet it was Pezeshkian’s acknowledgement of this fact that has driven the mullahs and their cohorts into a frenzy. Hossein Shariatmadari, the managing editor of Kayhan – the state-run daily newspaper, attacked the new President, claiming his remarks in the Majlis had dragged the entire regime through the mud. Appalled at the revelation of the fakery of the........

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