None of the candidates is seriously campaigning on change or legislative reform. They talk about human rights, prisoners' rights. Candidates mention the fact that people should not be in prison.
I have 30 years' experience. That is not the case with young Iranians, who did not live through the 1960s and so on. Enthusiasm over the possibility of major change does not come easily to me. I think there may be minor changes in terms of freedom of expression and private rights at the street level and in universities, but I do not see any significant changes because that cannot happen without the agreement of the Council of Guardians. And the members of that council are appointed either by the spiritual leader himself or by the head of the judicial system, who is also appointed by the supreme leader. So the system is closed to change. Furthermore, the assistant of the interior minister, who organizes the elections, said in an interview some time ago that it did not matter to them who won the election as the candidates had been hand-picked by government regime insiders, meaning friends of the regime, and so they were not at all worried. The way I see it, as long as there is no open campaign denouncing the spiritual leader's veto power and promoting the separation of religion and state, which is the cause of our problem, nothing will really change.