🔻Mohsen Salehi, Iran International; Khoddad Azizi’s profanity, the Tractor team manager, towards Hossein Alishah after his meeting with Gol Gohar once again sparked a wave of reactions in the public sphere and in Iran’s media.

🔹Beyond the ethical and professional dimensions of this incident, a more fundamental and key question arises: why do figures affiliated with the government and its ideological supporters, beyond law and convention, see themselves as immune to any accountability?

🔹This sense of self-importance and superiority stems from a discriminatory structure that divides citizens into two groups: “insiders” and “outsiders.” Azizi’s pattern of conduct is not a strange incident in the political and social life of the past decades; rather, it is a continuation of a well-established practice.

🔹From the shooting by Mahmoud Karimi, a prominent government-reciting cleric, in the streets of Tehran that ended without effective legal accountability, to other insults and off-the-books behaviors by system-affiliated figures—everything conveys a clear message to society: the law is not applied equally to everyone.

🔹Read the full note on the website.