🔶 Policy without war, without peace; Deadlocked rule or futile conflict?
Reporting by Alina Farhadi
Massoud Pazhkian talks about the costs that the Salami Republic pays for the continuation of the "no war, no peace" situation; According to him, it is no longer possible to separate expenses from people's daily lives.
But the Iranian president's admission of the erosion of livelihoods raises a more important question: if the continuation of this situation is so harmful to the economy and society, why isn't the government considering a way out of it?
The clear and unprecedented statements of Massoud Pazhkian, who warned that the condition of the people and the delay in the bread and butter of the society, is a result of the slogan of no war, no peace, lifted the curtain from the depth of the impasse of the regimes in Iran.
Pzheshkian II in November strongly emphasized that "we must leave this situation." He quoted the statements of Ali Khamenei, former leader of the Islamic Republic, and said "go and finish it" to get out of this slogan. This bare admission of the livelihood crisis was made in a situation where, according to official statistics, the annual inflation rate exceeded 87% and point-to-point food inflation reached more than 130%; An unprecedented record that destroyed the table of the weak layers.
However, just three days after the president's admission of this situation, the publication of the news about Mujtaba Khamenei's meeting with Mohsen Razai, by the communication office of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, revealed a different policy.
The official account of Mujtaba Khamenei, without specifying the time and place of this meeting, in a message attributed to him, saw the end of the situation of "no war, no peace" conditional on "fulfilling the conditions of Iran and the axis of resistance" and maintaining security through "controlling the Strait of Hormuz".
These developments come as, on the international stage, Donald Trump has called temporary ceasefires with Tehran "a mistake and a waste of time" in his recent posts. At the same time, the reports published in the media such as the New York Times and CNN on the eve of the parliamentary elections on October 27, 2026 in Israel showed that Benjamin Netanyahu called for large-scale attacks on Iran's infrastructure before the elections were held; A plan Trump opposed due to the symmetry with the November 3 mid-term elections in the United States.
Deutsche Welle discusses the dimensions of this political impasse in an interview with Dr. Hussam Dastfish, an analyst of Middle East issues, and Kausar Fathi, a researcher and political activist.
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