Iran’s parliament speaker says the people who regret the 1979 revolution attribute all the failures in the country to the Islamic Republic.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf made the remarks during a joint meeting with officials from the Revolutionary Guards, the Intelligence Ministry, and the country’s police Monday night.

He said there are some people who had been supporters of the Islamic Revolution; “who spoke and wrote for the revolution” but now regret their decisions and say the revolution has had no success and “attribute all of our failures to the revolution.”

He stressed the necessity for more cooperation among the intelligence community in the country, saying that “monitoring is one of the serious needs of the country in the current situation”.

Ghalibaf added that the parliament has allocated a day of its open sessions to monitoring measures and called for more effective use of monitoring tools.

Politicians on both ends of Iran's political spectrum continue to express concernover the dire state of country’s economy and the risk of a social explosion.

Increasing criticism by regime insiders coincides with the anniversary of the Islamic revolution; a time when officials glorify the 1979 revolution and its "achievements”.

This year's celebrations for the revolution are marrednot just by the pandemic but also the fact that it is much harder than ever to speak of the promises of freedom and prosperity given to masses in 1979.