Reformists in danger, people reluctant to help

I'm not a right-wing fan in Iran or else, but I think the recent protests by the reformists about their ban to stand for parliament, is more of a power struggle than really fighting for people's basic rights.

There is a big conflict of interest here at the ongoing sit-in and requesting people to join it; because their own fate, as a political faction, is in danger in the near future; as well as it is a threat to people's right to elect.

But personally I guess if the reformist MPs were in fact after people's rights, amid their own risks, they should've done the same when the Guardian Council rejected the bill to join 'the UN convention against discrimination against women', or even when they rejected the bill to revise the present election law.

Should the reformists really want massive support, as Alireza Alavi-Tabar suggests, they have to radicalize their platform and to define a new framework beyond the constitution. They all know where the problem lies (the unlimited power of the uncontrolled Leader) and they eventually have to do something about it.

Alongside, they could separate themselves from the conservative groups such as Rohanioon Mobarez (Mehdi Karrubi's group) who have cleverly displayed themselves as reformists while they all believe in, more or less, the same principles as the conservatives. The irony is that Karrubi and all other nominates from his group are accepted by the Guardian Council.

I don't think Iranian youth would engage in the current political row unless they see a real change in reformists platform, which could translate to a collective call for changing the constitution or something as politically significant.