Parliament Elections and 'Enforcement of Law' for the President of the Shooting Federation

Seyed Mahdi Hashemi, the president of the Shooting Federation, is the highest-ranking sports official who left the parliamentary elections in Tehran with failure. Hashemi, who served as a member of parliament in the ninth term, also holds the presidency of the Shooting Federation. The parliament, whose representatives expressed concerns about the presence of political figures in sports in the report 'Investigation and Inspection of the Football Federation,' demanded the resignation of politicians from sports management, while half of its representatives hold sports responsibilities. Previously, Mahmoud Goudarzi, the Minister of Sports, had stated at a joint meeting of the ministry's deputies: 'Why should about 155 representatives be active in sports federations? Isn't there enough work in the parliament? Instead of these 155 representatives, we could have educated individuals in physical education.' Goudarzi ended the presidency of Hossein Rezazadeh based on the law prohibiting dual employment and retired government officials. The ministry had asked Rezazadeh to resign from either the city council or the federation due to his dual employment. The disqualification of Hadi Saei in the Taekwondo Federation elections also occurred based on this law, allowing Seyed Mohammad Poladgar to remain in his position. Saei protested the inconsistency in the application of the law, stating: 'What was done for Bahram Shafiei in the Hockey Federation could have been done for me as well. But only he was allowed to participate in the elections.' Ahmad Nategh Nouri has committed violations in both areas. He is both dual-employed and a retired Ministry of Health official, yet he is in his twenty-sixth year of presidency over the Boxing Federation. Article 8 of the law on the adjustment of human resources in government agencies, ratified in January 1987, was also applied to Mohammad Reza Talaghani regarding the Traditional Sports Federation, while most of the nationwide Zurkhaneh committees requested his presidency, as he is part of this sport. However, no one noticed how and under which clause there is no prohibition on Seyed Mahdi Hashemi continuing his presidency over the Shooting Federation. Why can't Saei, Rezazadeh, and Talaghani, who are the essence of sports, continue, while Seyed Mahdi Hashemi and Ahmad Nategh Nouri, who incidentally have no championship backgrounds, can? The power of the Ministry of Sports only prevailed over sports figures, and considering the seriousness of the impeachment discussion of the Minister of Sports, agreements were made between the parliament and the ministry to allow the illegal presidency of managers like Hashemi in the Shooting Federation to continue. Ultimately, the law was enforced. However, not by the government or the General Inspection Organization, but the parliamentary elections in Tehran and Seyed Mahdi Hashemi's failure to succeed kept him from re-entering the parliament. Hashemi was a member of the 5 + 30 conservative coalition list, a controversial list that Gholamali Haddad Adel called fake. However, ultimately, neither from the first list of 30 under the title of the United Front of Conservatives nor from the plus five list known as the 'Great Coalition,' could even one person enter the tenth parliament.