🔹Rapid transition of Iranian society from the existing political order: The point of no return for the people
🔸The increase in social mobilization and the collapse of customary frameworks have brought the gap between society and the structures of power and government to an unprecedented level.
New Challenges to the Existing Order
🔸While some of the forces entrenched in the political, social, and cultural structure of Iran continue to resist accepting the profound social changes resulting from recent events, tangible evidence shows that since December, the customary frameworks and even the legal functions of the existing order have undergone significant changes.
🔸What now confronts Iranian society is no longer just political dissatisfaction or reformist demands, but a new level of social mobilization and collective awareness that has challenged the foundations of the relationship between society and power.
Legitimacy Crisis and Instability
🔸According to modernization theory and political order, when the level of mobilization, awareness, and social participation does not align with the capacity of political institutions to absorb and organize it, an institutional gap emerges; a gap that leads to a legitimacy crisis and ongoing instability.
🔸In contrast, traditional political structures continue to try to dictate previous definitions of transformation to society as a way to navigate the crisis by reproducing familiar terms and labels of "reform" and "change" and through public opinion engineering mechanisms. However, even the agents and promoters of this discourse implicitly acknowledge that Iranian society, especially in these critical moments, no longer responds to these frameworks. This situation indicates the erosion of institutional capacities to manage social mobilization and the ultimate change in Iran.
🔸From this perspective, the ongoing developments in Iran are more than just a prelude to a change of government or a shift in political power; they represent the entry of society into a phase of deep normative and anticipatory transformation; a phase in which the necessity for internal transformation of structures and social rules has become public awareness.
🔸Iranian society has clearly realized that without fundamentally reforming inefficient and corrupt mechanisms, even the occurrence of a political revolution could lead to the reproduction of the same previous patterns. This awareness itself is a sign of society crossing the threshold of the existing political order; a moment that is considered the beginning of the birth of a new order, expectation, and awareness.
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