With the presidential elections 10 months away and the likelihood that President Hassan Rouhani will come under more fierce criticism over his campaign promises and lack of tangible results in regard to the nuclear deal, members of the administration have signaled that they will soon take action against individuals who insult the president.
In response to the latest criticisms of the president by conservative clerics, Hojjat al-Islam Majid Ansari, Rouhani’s vice president for legal affairs, said, “We are witnessing unprecedented insults from those [in clerical robes], which are clothes of morality, leading to the breakdown of morality in the country.”
