Iranian President Hassan Rouhani responded today against critics who have publicly reprimanded him for saying that “heaven cannot be forced” onto people. He also compared some of the clerics opposed to change to the reactionary clerics who were also once opposed to private showers and daylight savings on the grounds that it would harm religion.
“Some people seriously have nothing better to do,” Rouhani said May 31 during a speech in front of environmental officials, without addressing his critics by name. “They have no work, no profession, they are with delusions. They are incessantly worried about people’s religion and the afterlife. They know neither what religion is nor the afterlife, but they’re always worried,” Rouhani added to applause.
