Apparently Mohajerani's ideas about opening the society to dialog and loosening the censorship on books does not sit well with the more conservative representatives of the Majlis. It seems like the radio of every car you ride and every television set you see is tuned to the debates, which are carried live. When ALL cabinet ministers are approved by the Majlis, cab drivers, store owners, people on the streets congratulate each other. In your conversations with relatives you realize that despair in the economic conditions of Iran and disgust at the widespread corruption in the officialdom has driven the voters to vote as they have. While in the political arena, hope tinges everything, economically, the youth of Iran face an unknown.
Unemployment is high, consumer prices higher, and the value of the money is in a steady decline.
Getting into the universities is becoming increasingly more difficult as the seats are limited and quotas of all shapes, sizes and colors abound. To get anything done, you have to stand in long lines, and grease the palm of any officials you can imagine. The bribe-takers have to feed their children too. Of course, you realize that if you have dollars, the prices do not seem so high. So must the foreign tourists, speaking in German, French, Italian, and Japanese.