When Tehran University students asked Ebrahim Raisi about the reason for Saeed Jalili’s absence in the cabinet in December 1401, he replied: “I personally offered him some responsibilities and he did not accept them.” Of course, now they are in the shadows and help the government.” The late president’s emphasis on “only from the shadows” was the same “shadow government” that Jalili formed after his election defeat from Hassan Rouhani; A shadow government with the presence of radical politicians and graduates of Imam Sadegh University.

۱۲ years have passed since the formation of the government under the shadow of Saeed Jalili. For 12 years, he has been trying to reach the pastor’s seat, but every time the elections were held, his hand fell short of the presidential seat. Sometimes he was forced to resign from the presidential elections in the 90th minute (as in June 1400) and sometimes he did not find the conditions favorable to participate in the elections (May 2016). But after 12 years, Jalili has made another decision; He, who was behind the curtain for many years, came out of the shadows these days and after the defeat in the elections of July 1403 and has put all his efforts to compete with the established government.

A man who considers himself the president

Although Saeed Jalili goes to Soura Hall on Tuesdays every week or from time to time he goes to villages and universities and gives speeches and expresses his criticisms against the Rouhani government and the 14th government, but these days he has resumed his political activities in a more special way. Almost every two days, not only are statements with repeated themes such as emphasizing 8% economic growth and the 7th development plan, Israel’s attack on military commanders and the return of sanctions after the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, but what has caused Saeed Jalili to distance himself from the calm face he always showed these days, was not his sharp statements against Hassan Rouhani and his invitation to debate, nor his frequent meetings with his supporters to speak against the government.

In fact, what makes Saeed Jalili different these days than ever before is the general perception and analysis of some experts that he considers himself the president and it seems that, contrary to what he said, he does not consider legitimacy for the established government of Masoud Mezikian. Especially, in his first reaction after losing the 1403 presidential election, he called the 14th government his rival government. It is as if 12 years of effort and, in his own words, “laying a basket” to reach the Pastor’s seat on the one hand and 13 million votes obtained by the fundamentalists and supporters of Ebrahim Raisi in July 1404, have made Jalili believe that in order to achieve his goal, he must prepare himself to compete and step into the political field.

On the other hand, the recent action of his media team has also been controversial. In other words, Saeed Jalili’s media team, in a strange move to design a poster to promote his speech, not only used images of Hassan Rouhani’s press conference during his presidency, but even called him a kind of president. Although this action is surprising in its own way, it is unprecedented. In his first election poster in Khordad 1403, he called himself “Said President”; While before that, the title “Martyr of the President” was used for the late President Ebrahim Raisi.

From the suspicion of Jalili’s friends to the leadership’s support for doctors

In July 1403, Saeed Jalili’s case suffered a bitter defeat; The defeat surprised the concerned people so much that they even pointed their finger at the votes of the people and tried to cast doubt on the votes of the new head of the executive branch by attacking the voters in provinces such as East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Kurdistan and West Azerbaijan and calling them ethnic. The effort started by Amirhossein Thabiti, Saeed Jalili’s senior adviser and Tehran’s representative in the 12th Parliament; He wrote in a note: “An interesting result was obtained with the publication of the Jalili and medical vote statistics separately for each province. “The parties have won the provinces almost equally (in 16 provinces, Mezikian got the first vote and in 15 Jalili provinces), but because of strong ethnic votes in 4 provinces of Ardabil, East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan and Kurdistan, Mezikian was able to become the president with a margin of less than 3 million votes.”

However, this attempt to cast doubt and discord between the doctors and his voting basket was closed, and even the fundamentalist media criticized this member of parliament. But Jalili’s friends sometimes went further and said: “People carelessly choose people for the parliament or the presidency or councils.”

But the anger of Jalili and his supporters against the doctors was so intense that in the past year, they repeatedly protested the policies adopted by the government – such as not announcing the law on chastity and hijab and trying to remove filtering – and brought their forces to the streets. Meanwhile, they tried to show that the president does not have a plan to run the country and can easily step aside by suggesting the resignation of doctors and his political inadequacy in the 12th parliament. Meanwhile, the established government has been supported by the Supreme Leader several times. Also, if the parliament orders the removal of doctors, it needs the approval of the leader of the revolution, whose positions show that the leadership is against such actions.

Masoud or Saeed; Can two presidents fit in one region?

Although Delvapasan’s project to remove Masoud Mezijian from the presidency has been closed, but due to the influence and presence of extremists and opponents of the government in governing institutions such as the Supreme Council of Cyber ​​Space, the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, the Majlis, etc., they have undoubtedly become a strong barrier in front of the doctors and they are trying to create many challenges and costs against him. They want to show a planless and weak face of the government by creating pressure such as confronting the removal of filtering and removing some of the faces and the primary circle of medical supporters, such as Abdul Naser Hemmati and Mohammad Javad Zarif. A program that can help hardliners in the 1407 presidential election and turn doctors into a one-term president.

However, before the presidential election of 1407, Masoud Al-Badishian was the president of this country by the decree and vote of the people, and according to Saadi’s words in Golestan, Chapter 1, in the biographies of the kings: “Ten dervishes will fit in a blanket and two kings will not fit in a climate.”