خلاصة:
The reformist discourse was configured based on a set of theoretical inconsistencies and lacked theoretical coherence. This is because it simultaneously utilized both traditional Islamic teachings and modern liberal teachings. The immediate consensus of the reformists resulted from the historical necessity of opposing the conservative candidate, who considered his victory certain. They aimed to bring the voices of religious innovators and reformists to society and maintain a presence in the political arena by aggregating scattered votes and creating a broad front. However, no specific strategy for this convergence or political alliance was designed. An unwritten consensus emerged around supporting Khatami. When the unbelievable victory was achieved, disagreements began. These disagreements, stemming from the theoretical inconsistencies of the discourse, revolved around extensive intellectual and ideological foundations, various political methods, and different executive procedures of the reformists. Broad or narrow, democratic or traditional interpretations of constitutional principles, the method of power division, and the utilization of the political interests of the presidency, the parliament, and the city council took shape. Therefore, every individual and group pulled the reformist movement in a different direction, the reformist consensus collapsed, and the necessary groundwork for theoretical transformation and changing their methods of political struggle was laid. In this article, the process of the collapse of the reformist consensus is examined within the framework of a theoretical approach.
ملخص الجهاز:
In this midst, the reformists constitute a wide spectrum of political and social forces in Iran who, in the seventh presidential election, gathered in the eighteen groups of the 2nd of Khordad by supporting Seyed Mohammad Khatami and achieving an unexpected victory.
This electoral shock deprived the conservatives, who had already imagined themselves as certain victors, of any possibility of reaction, plunged them into a political coma, and left Khatami's supporters, who lacked any planned strategy or tactic to face victory, manage society, and implement their reformist programs, facing the grave and heavy responsibility of statecraft; without having prepared a coherent organization and social structure for it.
Thus, different class origins, conflicting intellectual and theoretical foundations, and differences in political beliefs, which brought about diverse cultural values, heterogeneous political interests, and various tastes and executive methods, diversity brought about, it quickly showed its negative effects and, in the first year of Khatami's governance, intra-discursive conflicts within the Reformist movement emerged.
But this extreme approach yielded nothing more than the widening of the gap between the two wings on one hand, and the pervasive nature of the disagreement among the forces and groups of the 2nd of Khordad on the other; it provided the necessary pretext for the lack of strategic cohesion in the reformist discourse, leading to greater political heterogeneity.
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