不要拯救伊朗大选抗议罢工和救援;

Akbar Hashemi Zefsanjani, the reformist candidate in the 2013 elections, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Ali Khamenei. Image from Mehr News Agency.

Fighting between voters and boycotters escalates again on the eve of the elections. Voters argue in the same way as in previous cycles, that when the country is in a bad situation, the election of a moderate president will help moderate the situation and ease economic and political pressures. On the other hand, the boycotters believe that the Islamic Republic's sham elections — In addition to being factional and closed, it has been done with fraud for more than thirty years, and in the last round, it was held in a completely orderly manner and at the cost of the blood of several hundred Iranian people — It lacks the necessary minimum requirements for people's participation, so participation in such elections has no other result than to give the Islamic system popular legitimacy.

Both the voting and boycotting groups believe that their own views are preferable to those of the other side, and that their opposing front either does not understand the current situation in the country or is fundamentally traitorous and biased. Both sides believe that their participation or non-participation is going to be a major political move, which will have a huge impact on the future of the country. Voters insist that voting for their preferred candidate is to the detriment of the government because the candidate of the opposition faction will not win. The boycotters also believe that their vote is not only fruitless to the system of honor and authority (Legitimate power) gives what it lacks today. What makes all these disagreements meaningless is their repetition over and over again in the past years. Voters in different periods voted for their own candidates in the hope of change, and the boycotters boycotted the elections in different periods, and in the end, the situation of our country has deteriorated day by day. Neither the voters' vote has brought about a significant change in the conditions of our country over the past few decades, nor has the boycott of the elections been able to untie the knots of the country. Elections in the Islamic system are an insignificant phenomenon and at best a fight between the mafia within the power for more resources, in which participation or non-participation will not in itself bring about any fundamental change. As a rule, we cannot hope to repeat the same behavior under the same conditions for years and decades and get different results.

在伊朗社会，通过选举轻松无痛地实现变革的希望具有鸦片般的作用，阻碍了人民运动的形成。. 伊朗人民宁愿通过公民运动和公众抗议来提出合法要求，而不是 — 这是提出这些要求的合理方式。 — 等待另一次选举的到来，也许奇迹会一劳永逸地发生；却不知道这个以前没有治愈过的伊玛目这次也不会治愈。. همه ما خیلی خوب می دانیم که تغییرات واقعی چگونه شکل می گیرند؛ حتی اگر در ظاهر مخالفت کنیم و حتی اگر شهامت بیان حقیقت را نداشته باشیم. تحولات سیاسی در ایران راه حل آسان و میانبر ندارند. متاسفانه فرصت های ملت ایران برای ایجاد تحول یکی پس از دیگری از دست می روند و تاریخ هم هیچگاه معطل یک ملت بازنده نمی ماند.

今天，伊朗伊斯兰共和国正处于多年前朝鲜等国家所走的道路的开端；在这条道路的尽头，国内将不会留下任何名为伊朗民族或伊朗公民社会的东西来创造变革。. 在我们为这些日子和失去的机会感到遗憾和惋惜之前，最好先考虑一下解决办法。.