Iran's presidential policies criticized by reformists

At the 10th party congress held by the Iran’s reformist Participation Front, the group’s secretary-general, Mohsen Mirdamadi, criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s “unbelievable” contempt for democracy in the country, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported today.

Mirdamadi said that Ahmadinejad acts like “the greatest defender of democracy” in the world, while continually denouncing democracy and party politics in Iran.

Describing the government, Mirdamadi said the Ahmadinejad presidency was the result of two political currents: one that works to exclude all political forces that do not adhere to the government’s strict definition of Iran’s religious and revolutionary ideology, and another he said undermines the ideals of the Islamic revolution and sees the empowerment of “the most reactionary, radical, and antifreedom” elements as the means to achieve this. According to Mirdamadi, Iran faces “the decline of moral society, the spread of lies and deceptive appearances...and the wasting of social assets.”

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