Guardian Council Spokesman Stresses Preservation of the Historical Memory of Religious Democracy

The Guardian Council and the Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with the Organization of Documents and the National Library, have taken a strategic step to document the history of the Islamic Republic by preserving and organizing election records.

According to Ambassador Arjan, a meeting of the working group on election documents was held on Sunday morning, October 12, 1405, with the presence of Hadi Tahannazeef, the spokesman of the Guardian Council, Mohammad Hassan Sadeghi Moghadam, the executive deputy and election affairs of the Guardian Council, and Ali Zainivand, the political deputy minister of the interior and the head of the country's election headquarters, along with a group of relevant officials in the Documents Organization and the National Library of Iran.

In this meeting, which was held with the aim of planning for the preservation and preservation of historical documents of the holding of elections in the Islamic Republic, Hadi Tahannazeef, the spokesman of the Guardian Council, stated that the registration and recording of election documents is one of the important priorities of this institution, and stated: This document project, beyond the current affairs of the institutions, is a national duty to preserve the historical memory of the country, which is directly related to the rights of future generations.

Emphasizing that the judgment of future generations about the establishment of a religious democratic system in Iran will be based on these documents, Tahannazeef added: In addition to the election documents of different eras, the collection and accurate documentation of the documents related to the decisive referenda of the system, including the constitution and its revision, is an inevitable necessity. We are obliged to complete the documentation gaps of the early years of the revolution with the cooperation of the Research Institute of the Guardian Council and the National Documents Organization.

In this meeting, Sadeghi Moghadam also welcomed the expansion of interactions between the documents organization and the Guardian Council in order to preserve the historical documents of the country's elections and said: the proper organization and archiving of these documents will undoubtedly increase the access level of scholars and experts, and especially in the historical and legal fields, they can be cited by technical people and enthusiasts.

The executive deputy and election affairs of the Guardian Council, emphasizing the council's readiness to cooperate more with the documents organization and the national library of the country, said: the country's election documents and archives are a valuable treasure that will definitely be welcomed by experts and even the general public, so this council is ready to develop and deepen its relationship with the documents organization.

Sadeghi Moghadam added: More meetings should be held between the experts of the Guardian Council and the Document Center, and the results should be made available to the public in a practical manner and in the form of specific rules and regulations.

Sadeghi Moghadam said: Election documents are an example of religious democracy documents that should be recorded and used by future generations. These documents show the role of the people in determining the type of system and selecting officials.

In the continuation of this meeting, Ali Zainivand, Political Deputy Minister of the Interior, pointed out the necessity of "narrative management" in the international environment and stated: The Islamic Republic has great capacities in the field of democracy, which, if accurate documents and proofs are presented, can become one of the strengths of the system in the face of cognitive wars. Election documents are the most telling narrative of people's participation and role-playing in determining their own destiny.

Also, Gholamreza Amirkhani, head of Iran's National Records and Library Organization, while expressing his satisfaction with this tripartite interaction, said: Keeping the election documents as part of the national identity is a great achievement, and the National Records Organization stands with all its strength alongside the Ministry of Interior and the Guardian Council to preserve this divine and national trust.

It should be noted that, in this meeting, while examining the expert reports on the methods of document classification and transfer, the importance of protecting the documents of all the stages of the election, from registration to the verification of qualifications, was emphasized.

In the end, the officials of the Guardian Council and the Ministry of Interior, by attending the repositories, specialized restoration laboratories and the protection departments of the Documents Organization, got to know closely the scientific processes of preserving Iran's national memory.