Without Publishing Names and Details; A Member of Raisi's Office Claims the Dismissal of 90 'Government Managers'

A member of the Iranian government's office has claimed, without providing details, that approximately 90 'government managers' have been dismissed. Hassan Darvishian, head of the 'Special Inspection Office' of Ebrahim Raisi, told the ILNA news agency that some managers were dismissed due to 'inefficiency' and others due to their 'performance' and 'incompatibility with the policies of this government.' He also claimed that Ebrahim Raisi's promotional plan for 'manager patrols,' which has never had a clear or accurate report on its mechanisms or potential results published, 'will definitely continue.' The head of the 'Special Inspection Office' stated that around 90 government managers have been dismissed, yet no names or positions of these potential dismissals have been released. This official confirmed that some of these dismissed managers were removed due to their ties to the previous government. The existence of corruption, especially 'systematic corruption' among senior officials of the Iranian government and managers of the Islamic Republic, has always been a point of protest among citizens in various street gatherings and social media posts. However, there has never been a clear report in recent decades of 'decisive and public action' against a senior offending manager of the Islamic Republic, while the apparently dismissed offending manager has found another position, leading to the emergence of a term called 'the principle of the survival of managers,' derived from the physical principle of 'the conservation of matter and energy.' The website 'Khabar Online' reported in August 2017 in an article titled 'The Law of the Survival of Managers' that in the structure of the Islamic Republic, 'managers are not created or destroyed; they are transferred from one organization to another.' The website 'Ruydad24' also reported in December 2019 in an article titled 'The Principle of the Survival of Iranian Managers / Officials Who Are Unfamiliar with the Culture of Resignation!' and referred to the bloody massacre of protesters against the sudden and nighttime increase in gasoline prices, stating: 'The death of several hundred people in a week was not significant enough for anyone that even one manager would want to resign because of it.' This media outlet continued: 'If such an event occurred with such magnitude anywhere in the world, the least cost for the executors would be resignation, but in Iran, the situation is entirely different; in Iran, not only do managers and officials not resign, but they also come to work with full power and continue their duties.' Users in cyberspace have also emphasized that these dismissals and actions are temporary and that the principle of 'the survival of managers' prevails, as these individuals never leave the circle of influential people or senior managers. Announcing different numbers without publishing details is one of the tactics of various governments in the Islamic Republic, which has also been a common method regarding dealing with offending managers. A few months ago, following the exposure of the 'Dabesh tea' corruption, the Raisi government announced that it had 'dismissed' 60 government officials, but according to the statements of Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje'i, the government refrained from introducing them to the judiciary. In the same incident, newspapers in Iran reported that 'the previous head of the Central Bank, who was significantly involved in these payments during his term, was dismissed and sent to the Iranian embassy in Qatar.' The role of Javad Sadatinejad, the former Minister of Agricultural Jihad in the Dabesh tea corruption case, is also one of those instances where his 'resignation' occurred before 'interrogation,' but it is unclear in which governmental position he will reappear soon.