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Tehran’s presidential candidates, Iran Irans have once again clashed in their third and final televised debate this time, which is more open, especially in the 2015 civil nuclear deal with world powers and United States sanctions.
The seven men five conservatives and a hardliner, a moderate and a reformist used a slightly improved debate format on Saturday to speak more directly and at length about the corruption and mismanagement they believe has misled the country.
After most of the candidates criticized the previous two debates for not including moderation and saw them not answering both questions, state television started the final event by asking a question about people’s problems. to all participants.
Many candidates discussed the need for an overhaul in the style of government management in addition to fighting corruption and supporting marginalized Iranians again without providing much detail on how to actually implement their plans.
But more notably, more time has been spent on the nuclear deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and the harsh sanctions imposed by the U.S. since 2018 unilaterally repealed by former President Donald Trump his country from the landmark agreement.
The issue has been largely ignored in the past two debates as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last month foreign policy is not one of the people’s main problems.
But moderate candidate Abdolnaser Hemmati, who ruled the central bank until earlier this month when he was removed from running for president, has harshly criticized internal political forces opposing the JCPOA.
What happens if power falls into the hands of hardliners? he directly questioned Ebrahim Raisi, who heads the judiciary and is seen as a leader in the polls.
I have no reserve to say that there will be new sanctions with more international agreement, he said referring to the pre-JCPOA period, when Iran was under multilateral sanctions.
The technocrat warned Raisi and other like -minded politicians do not want to remove sanctions because it would cut off the internal forces that benefit from them, and said that all this time you have been playing on the court of Trump in your hardline actions.
He also urged opponents of enacting the remaining legislation to complete the Iranian financial transparency action plan with the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
People watch the debate of presidential candidates in a park in Tehran, Iran [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]Flip the table
In response, Raisi said he will remain committed to the JCPOA like any other agreement in the state.
However, he said the effective implementation of the agreement requires a strong government, adding that the outgoing administration of moderate President Hassan Rouhani is not like that.
To the FATF which currently only counts Iran and North Korea on its blacklist of non -cooperative countries he said he does not support it because it does not guarantee the interest of our countries.
Hardline candidates Saeed Jalili, a former top nuclear negotiator, and Mohsen Rezaei, a former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), both said their potential governments would be made to regret the enemy is to punish Iran by boosting local production and abolishing it. penalties.
The JCPOA is a bad check, Jalili said, while Rezaei said Iran should flip the table, or somehow slap the table when the U.S. is faced with negotiating the agreement and trying to achieve sanctions to do so. the demands of Iran.
Nuclear negotiations
As with bashing every candidate, the sixth talks began in Vienna to restore the JCPOA, which continued diplomacy of world powers with U.S. delegates as Iran refused to meet directly with Washington.
It appears unlikely that an agreement will be reached to restore the agreement before Iran’s presidential election. Meanwhile, a month -long extension of the contents of an agreement reached by Iran with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to resume monitoring nuclear areas ended on June 24.
Russia’s top negotiator, Mikhail Ulyanov, said in a tweet on Saturday that all of us want to do it as soon as possible, but the quality of an outcome document comes first.
The other day, top Iranian and US negotiators clashed on Twitter as Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shed tears of Robert Malley who said he was saddened by the death of political prisoner Sasan Niknafas under suspicion. suspicious conditions in an Iranian prison. .
Economic terrorism in the midst of a pandemic is a crime against humanity, he wrote regarding US sanctions.
A TV broadcast a debate of presidential candidates in a store in Tehran, Iran [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]Candidates oppose disqualifications
In the meantime, Iran will open voting booths as criticism of the widespread disqualification of reformists and moderate candidates continues.
On Saturday, the leader’s top adviser and former three-time parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, a pragmatist expected to present the biggest challenge to Raisi, protested against his eligibility of the constitutional vetting body known as the Guardian Council .
In a statement, he said a decision by the supreme leader allows him to find out why he was disqualified, especially reports that his daughter lives and studies in another country went wrong. Larijani called on the hardline council to make its reasoning public.
Council spokesman Abas Ali Kadkhodaei was quick to respond, saying in a tweet that disqualifications were decided based on sufficient and reliable evidence and documents, and there was no provision predicted in the presidential election rule to protest the disqualification and make public the reasons behind them.
A prominent former presidential candidate and opposition leader also criticized the 2021 election.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, whose defeated bid to prevent the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad led to protests during the Green Movement, said he stood up to those who could no longer withstand embarrassing and stigmatized elections.
Mousavi, who has been under house arrest without trial since widespread protests, warned that maintaining the Guardian Council’s current style of administration could make the title of Islamic republic meaningless for the country.
The upcoming election is expected to be characterized by low turnout amid public frustration, with some polls putting turnout at less than 40 per cent which will be the lowest since the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution.
The more criticized debates are unlikely to create much public uproar because polls suggest less than four in 10 Iranians watched the previous two.
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