Yes, I do think that Ebrahim Raisi....
The election last year, which had the lowest turnout in the past 43 years, is very telling. People are completely disgruntled.
As the logic goes, there's nothing wrong with a democracy that can't be fixed with what is right with a democracy. The opposite is true with a country like Iran, where the very pillars of the system prevent the wrongs from being made right.
Unfortunately, that's true, but whether people call themselves “hard-liners” or “reformists”...otherwise, after 43 years, reform would have happened.
Do I think it has deteriorated? Yes. It's like saying it's gone from an “F” to even worse than that. The system is completely broken. As the daughter of former president Rafsanjani said, there is a huge disillusionment with the system, because there's no way to fix it.