Fars special group: Alireza Zakani, the mayor of Tehran, mentioned the Saturdays of Hope project in a tweet and wrote: “From today, we started the Saturdays of Hope and Pride with the opening of the largest underground train terminal in the country.
With the help and grace of God, from now on every Saturday until the beginning of Fajr, we will have the opening of large-scale urban projects, some of which have been among the wishes of the city management in the past years.
In fact, what can be gleaned from this tweet is Zakani’s response to the concerns of his friends, the response to sympathetic critics, and the decisive response to the attacks and scenarios of the reformist current towards Tehran’s urban management.
In fact, the question should be answered, what scenarios did Zakani face at the age of one year from Tehran Municipality? And the course of reforms and some competitors who lost the competition for city management in Tehran city council, what actions did they take against the mayor of Tehran?
first step; The scenario of the illegality of the municipal office and the pressure on the city administration
In many cases, the media attributed to the reforms tried to make Zakani municipality appear to be against administrative rules and regulations with seemingly legal justifications.
Therefore, under titles such as:
“Why is Zakani still the illegal mayor of Tehran?”
“Revocation of the signing of Zakani’s order by the Minister of Interior”
“What will happen to Zakani? Dismissal or…” and “Zakani’s imminent farewell to heaven?!”
The first step was to base their scenario.
These media know that the reason for the annulment of Zakani’s mayorship is that his academic expertise is not suitable for the position of mayor, while many reformist and non-reformist mayors also had no special connection with the field of urban management from an academic point of view, and no one He did not criticize their presence in urban management, but with Zakani’s presence, all the critics suddenly came to the conclusion that we should go to special people with more specific academic expertise to manage the city of Tehran, while in macro-management, expertise never means The necessary condition for assuming a responsibility is not considered, but in other countries such as England, the mayor of London, with a law degree, has been the mayor of London since 2016 until now.
On the other hand, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, who is the best symbol of the reform process as the mayor, has an academic degree in economics and a university degree in applied mathematics.
Or Mohammad Ali Najafi, who is most famous for being convicted of femicide, has a degree in mathematics.
It is interesting that Shargh newspaper, which is affiliated with the reforms, writes in its report of the interview with Pirouz Hanachi:
“Perhaps in years he was the only mayor whose education fully matched the chair he was leaning on!”
This means that many of Tehran’s mayors, most of whom belong to the reform movement, have lacked close expertise in urban management, and the reforms for urban management had taken other criteria into consideration.
Therefore, the question here is, what was the preference of mathematics expertise over nuclear medicine regarding its compatibility with urban and municipal affairs of Tehran, and why did the reformers seek to destroy Zakani in this way, which will be answered in the following.
second step; The scenario of Zakani’s resignation from the municipality and his appointment
But after it became clear that the signing of the decree of Zakani municipality by the interior minister was not opposed by the regulatory and legal institutions of the country, these media started another scenario.
The news line of Zakani’s resignation and his departure to the government is the new solution of these media instead of the illegal scenario of making Zakani’s verdict look illegal. Of course, this news was denied by Tehran Municipality.
The large volume of these news productions finally led to the reaction of some media activists and officials of Tehran Municipality.
A media activist writes:
“From time to time, they make news about Zakani’s departure from the municipality. They also use the law as an excuse, but they don’t say that Zakani’s performance is a nightmare for them. Repeating this scenario shows that this nightmare has become even more terrifying for them. They know very well that the record of the mayor of Tehran determines the political term of many of these news makers”.
third step; Marginalizations for urban management
But the mentioned cases were not the only productions of media opposing Zakani Municipality; In addition to these cases, another wave of marginalization was also observed for the performance of the mayor.
The most important of these marginalization occurred during the flood of Imamzadeh Dawood. Despite the fact that it was said that relief to this area is not within the scope of Tehran municipality’s duties, Zakani and the municipal team went to that area to help the flood-affected people; But the reformist media called these measures a show and in some cases addressed it with sarcasm.
Sarvari, the vice chairman of Tehran City Council, said in response to the sarcastic statements of the media:
Tehran Municipality has arrived at the scene of the accident with more than 200 rescue equipments and about 1000 personnel to provide relief to the people. But what issue was highlighted in the media? “Shoaf” the mayor of Tehran! … They say why Zakani went with shoes and did not wear boots, and it is interesting that we should ask them if all this equipment and manpower is “Shoaf”? He said with a poetic expression that it is better to be a bee and sit on a flower and not to be a fly and sit on a wound.
the last step; The arrival of Mohsen Hashemi and Hanachi as concerned people in Tehran
Recently, Pirouz Hanachi and Mohsen Hashemi have separately discussed the performance of Tehran Municipality in an interview and a note.
In his interview with Shargh newspaper, Pirouz Hanachi says: “I am worried about Tehran” after criticizing the one-year performance of the mayor of Tehran. Of course, this comment is from a person whose only achievement for the people of Tehran is the pictures that show him riding a bicycle with a group of city managers on the streets of Tehran.
Mohsen Hashemi, the former head of Tehran city council, also wrote in a note in Sharq newspaper:
“The promises and performance of Tehran’s urban management in one year show the disregard for the five-year plan approved by the Fifth Council and experts, and most of the big promises are made at the level of the country and the government”.
In conclusion, he said: “In conclusion, I emphasize that we have no other way than going back to program-oriented, that is, approved programs and the use of urban experts and specialists.” Strict implementation of programs and monitoring should not be forgotten and left on paper.
The statements of Hanachi and Mohsen Hashemi had a lot of echoes in the reformist media. As the democracy website affiliated with Mustafa Kovakbian publishes Mohsen Hashemi’s article with this title: “Mohsen Hashemi’s assessment of Zakani’s one-year performance: Although the municipality has competent professionals, the work of the municipality is only to promise and act without a plan.”
These statements by Mohsen Hashemi as the head of the fifth city council of Tehran, while the only management of this council is changing several mayors in Tehran for various reasons, introducing a murderer mayor to the people of Tehran and changing the names of streets and alleys in Tehran after some It has anti-revolutionary and fringe elements, in this regard, the vice-chairman of the Communications and Information Council also wrote in response to these statements:
“One of the examples of astronomical arrogance is the mirror:
Mohsen Hashemi, the former head of the city council, whose biggest management output was the election of three mayors within 13 months and whose most important work program was playing the name and family game instead of building Tehran, has written a note criticizing the municipality entitled “Forgetting the central plan”.
In any case, in response to the question why the scenarios to put pressure on the city management by the reformist elements have been implemented, in the very initial tweet of Dr. Zakani, Zakani seeks to fulfill the promises and advance the infrastructures that were made in the previous administrations. The city of Tehran has not been able to achieve it and the reforms and competitors know that if this happens from the city administration and Tehran’s infrastructure is completed, all the designed scenarios are doomed to failure.
The end of the message.