ABC Madrid

March /19 /2008

By: George Chaya

Taqiyya, literally, is defined as "to hide or to disguise the beliefs, convictions, ideas, opinions or strategies of one in an adverse moment". In essence, it can be defined as the Islamic legitimation of the deceit, falseness, fraud, stratagem and the authorization to lie in difficult times, everything allowed by the Koran to all the Muslims.

The director of the Central Bank of Iran expressed to President Ahmadinejad his concern for the alarming increment of the inflation. The President's Ahmadinejad answer was categorical: "The inflation is irrelevant for the country, and it won't influence in the elections of March 14". At the same time, a report of the Center of Iranian Strategic Investigation (IEC) confronted the President's declarations and informed that the government budget projected for next year would increase an astronomical inflation.

 

In spite of the fact that "We are the most democratic country in the region", in words of the Secretary of External Matters of the Islamic Republic, Manuchehr Mottaki, the events inside Iran, however, offer a different image then. About a month ago, the Council of the Guardians of the Constitution, a committee of 12 people formed by the mulahs and its legal consultants, rejected the applications of almost 4000 men and women who wanted to converge to the elections of March 14. Almost all the disappointed applicants belong to the 21 formations designated by the western observers as "reformist competitors" of the ultra-radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

 

The list of those rejected "unfit" is a relationship of dissident, and it includes those who carried out positions in the administrations of Hashemi Rafsanjani (a mulah who became a businesman now ) and Mohammed Jatami (the clergyman of that preceded Ahmadinejad). There are also a significant number of former members of the Islamic Advisory Assembly (the Majlis), the parliament of 290 benches that contributes to give a certain democracy appearance since Khomeini but behaves as a Persian gulag.

 

It is certain that the so called "reformist" have never proposed any program of reformations, being many of them seminal instigators of the nuclear program that Iran bought to Dr. Jan, the Pakistani trafficker of nuclear technology. Their reputation of "moderate" and "reformist" owes itself in great measure to the fact that they use the art of the taiqiyah to hide their true intentions to the outside world.

 

Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, avoids the taqiyah. He vomits by his mouth what he has in his head. And he sincerely believes that his variant of the Islam is on its way to victory against a corrupt, weak, obese and cowardly West, headed by a divided United States . The main problem of these Iranian elections is that the western politics of dialogue has convinced the electorate, for the first time, that Ahmadinejad who was thought a demented in the previous elections, now he could be guessed right. Far from benefitting to the so called "moderate", the politics of enderingness and indulgence preac hed by the czar of the foreign policy of the European Union, Javier Solana, has reinforced to the radical faction headed by Ahmadinejad.

 

In these elections the ultra-radical President also, controls the presidency and the Council of Secretaries ; these elections will give the stroke to exit from the maneuver of the Islamic Revolutionary Body guard to enter in the remaining centers of power in Iran , beginning with the Majlis. The one in charge of organizing these elections, has been the General Reza Afshar and other officials that head electoral commissions for the whole country. There approaches a huge Persian fraud

 

The third reason that these elections won't change anything is that Ahmadinejad has had a scrupulous care in reducing the powers of the Majlis as long as its Islamic Guard is made with the power. Approximately two weeks ago, the Iranian press was made echo of a letter where President Ahmadinejad explains to the president of the Majlis that the parliament lacks authority to force him to alter his policies . In a plain language, according to Ahmadinejad, the parliaments of the Republics exist to approve what ever the president decides to do .

The Majli's speaker Gulam Ali Haddad Adel, found so insulting the novel version Ahmadinejadesca of the European fascism of the 30' s that he complained to the" Supreme Guides ", the ayatollah Ali Khamenei. After several days of hesitation, the ayatollah answered with a soft reprimand to Ahmadinejad that responded himself saying that his government doesn't worry about epistolary exercises.

The parties and the groups pro-Ahmadinejad will converge in these elections with the collective label of "fundamentalists" (Osul-garayan), and they seem to get ready for a massive mobilization of the segments of society still loyal to the Khomeinist revolution . in a moment when in spite of the cascade of benefits of the raw one, the Iranian economy is drawning , due especially to the cost of the nuclear program and the financing of the jihad in Iraq, Gaza and Lebanon. In case the middle class remains aside , thing that is expected from the apathy consequence of the economic situation , those segments could prove large enough to grant a second turn to the Ahmadinejad' s presidency, and that in turn would prepare him in an even more privileged position facing to a second command in June of 2009.

 

The only color note that will leave these elections is that the eradication of "moderate" and "reformist" will deprive for the first time from a direct way to Europe of one of its older illusions regarding Iran : that the Khomeinist régime still possesses an evolution mechanism and interns change.

What Iman Khomeini has left to Islamic Revolution when he thought to rescue the bases of the ethics, morals and the politics inside the shiism, is a theocratic ,messianic and imperial system, that seeks protection in the tradition to subsist. The fraud denounced in advance by important religious personalities and politicians informs expressly that the taqiyya is already a way of making politics, accompanied by the sectarism and the postponement of the ethical and political principles on the part of Ahmadinejad régime whose address locates the Iranians in the eye of an international storm and it serves as synonym for madness, indolence and fraud.

 

 

 

*George Chaya is a Journalist and International political analyst expert in Middle East .