If the majority of Armenian voters chose a party of peace over a party of war (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=39886), the opposite happened in Iran, where Ebrahim Raisi, whom observers called «the toughest of tough candidates,» won the presidential election.
Raisi is a former Tehran prosecutor and deputy prosecutor general of Iran, who has been blamed for not only official but also mass extrajudicial executions of opponents of the Khomeinist regime. However, despite his sympathy for oppressed Iranians, it is his foreign policy positions that interest us most.
Suffice it to say that Raisi is a supporter of strengthening the Shiite axis, openly referring to Iraqi and Lebanese terrorist groups such as «Hezbollah» and «Hashd al-Shaabi», Assad’s executioners, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, declaring them all «part of Iran».
By the way, the reason we mentioned the almost simultaneous elections in Armenia and Iran is not without purpose. Of course, it would have been ideal for Raisi and the forces he represents if the hawkish Armenian candidates, led by Robert Kocharyan, had won the elections. After all, Khomeinist Iran has long and consistently supported Armenia against Azerbaijan, seeing it as a wedge driven into the Turkic-Oghuz world and an allied outpost within it.
Nikol Pashinyan’s policy of discussing the transit route between Azerbaijan and Turkey through Armenian territory is causing concern in Tehran in this regard. Even more worrying are the repeated statements by representatives of the victorious party in Armenia about the possibility and desirability of economic cooperation with Turkey.
In this context, anti-Turkish commentators fear the scenario of «Georgianization of Armenia», i.e. its absorption by Turkish capital and its transformation into a «Turkish vilayet». Therefore, it is clear that it would be more convenient for the Iranian war party to have a leader in Armenia who also prefers, if not war, then preparations for war, instead of economic development and attracting investments.
Taking into account the strong anti-Turkish and anti-Azerbaijani sentiments in the Armenian society, it can be assumed that the Iranian party of war, represented by aggressive Khomeinists and crusaders, will not leave the new Armenian government in peace and will not stop using this country as an instrument of anti-Turkish containment.
However, when we talk about the victory of the party of war in Iran, as opposed to Armenia, we must keep in mind that this victory is very conditional. Yes, Raisi received 62% of the votes cast, but the turnout this time was exceptionally low — only 48% of those who had the right to vote. And this is because the Shiite clerics of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Revolution excluded all of Raisi’s real and popular opponents from the elections, making participation in these elections meaningless.
Therefore, unlike the people of Armenia, the people of Iran have not yet spoken their real word. So let’s hope that they will still speak out, and that it will be a word in favor of not interfering in the affairs of their neighbors, making peace with them, and concentrating on solving their own problems.