Raeisi ‘to form coalition government with manufacturers, entrepreneurs, workers’
Ebrahim Raeisi, the Iranian Judiciary chief, who is running for president, says he will form a “coalition government” with Iranian manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and workers, distinguishing his campaign with an explicitly economic and production-oriented agenda.
Visiting the Abbas Abad Industrial Town near Tehran and meeting with industrial workers and managers there on Sunday (May 30), Raeisi announced that his potential administration would coalesce with those active in the production sector.
“The power of the country is today dependent on the power of production,” he pronounced. “Anyone striving to bring about a production boom will be contributing to national security and power.”
He said workers and manufacturers were on the frontline of the Iranian economy and were “the officers and soldiers on the field of progress.”
“People complain about why Iran can build missiles but not quality cars…, that is because technology is not spreading from the defense to the industry sector. We will make that happen in the 13th administration,” Raeisi said.
Iran is holding its 13th presidential election on June 18. Raeisi is running together with six other candidates. All of them have been specially focusing on the Iranian economy, battered by sanctions and mismanagement in recent years.
On his first day of campaigning, Raeisi visited Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, the symbolic heart of commerce in the Iranian capital, sometimes going behind counters and talking to merchants on the ground.
In his Sunday remarks, the Iranian presidential candidate also said his administration would be “active, nimble, and production-oriented,” and will work to both reform its own internal structures and support production.
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