In a note published on June 26, Dr. Seyed Emamian, GPTT co-founder discussed the relations between the Iranian state and the government. According to him, sometimes governments, instead of focusing on their inherent duties in Iran’s governance system, mistakenly or due to political opportunism, invest in the gaps that existed in the relationship between the executive branch and other branches. In the political history of Iran, there have been many periods of conflict between the government and the parliament or the judiciary. Also, the deliberate polarization of society has been experienced as part of governments’ political strategy. Similarly, post-revolutionary Iran has also frequently witnessed the construction of the “electoral-appointee” dichotomy. Due to their often non-executive and policy-regulatory nature, state institutions traditionally represent the values of the political system and benefit from long-term organizational stability. On the other hand, governmental departments, as a part of the enormous executive body, are directly elected by the people, have a limited life span, and are politically unstable. The adoption of “anti-state” strategies by governments actually intensifies the process of “depoliticization” and unintentionally leads to the “securitization” of political or technical governance processes. He suggested that governments can prevent the interventions of the state bodies in the layer of execution by carefully defining the relationship between the two, while “obeying the frameworks and principles” of grand policies, so governments can enjoy a range of support and facilitations as well.
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