Tabriz Majlis member Mas`ud Pezeshkian courageously stood up in the Majlis and gave the reactionary majority a lesson in tolerance and humanism as exemplified in the person Imam Ali. Mr. Pezeshkian was himself a former basiji, but called on the assembled to treat all, friend and foe, with forbearance if they do wrong and to listen to opposing views with patience.
The reference at the end to “2-2, 4-4″ would seem to refer to the electoral code of the front-running candidates, or to something more obscure about Islamic Republican parliamentarianism.
Warm thanks to Mina for her help in some harder-to=hear passages. Passages in Arabic from Imam Ali’s epistles are not translated separately, as they are paraphrased adequately in Persian by the Majlis member.
