If one asks who is to be grieved in the forgery case involving the Minister of the Interior, I would ‎respond that it is the Iranian people and society who deserve that. ‎

Nothing else is expected of those who forge and use forged documents: dozens of them have ‎government posts and have been reaping the benefits of their forged diplomas for years. Nothing ‎else is expected of people around them either; not only do they not care about forged diplomas, ‎they actually do not have decent relations with educated and informed people anyway!‎

However, one must feel sorry for Iranian society as it seems to lack the vision and power to react ‎to such issues. Some people believe that Western politicians lack courage or are too honest and ‎so resign, or leave politics altogether, when faced with a crises, which are normally less serious ‎than Kordan’s case. But this is not the case. It is public pressure that makes life impossible for ‎corrupt public officials. Pressures of that type do not exist in our country. A corrupt official in ‎this country even sees it as his right to preach ethics and faith to the public and journalists.‎

It is our society's weakness and frailty in response to such violations that allows us to have a ‎Majlis which takes a wasteful three months to remove a corrupt minister from office in order as ‎it begs for his resignation or removal. A weak society cannot be the source of a strong ‎government. If we examine what took place in the United States in response to the Watergate ‎scandal and at the height of the cold war, which led to Nixon's resignation, or review the ‎American judiciary and media's treatment of Clinton, it becomes apparent that such a society ‎would always give rise to a powerful and responsible government. In a society like that, because ‎people and the media and civil society institutions are powerful, powerful government ‎institutions are formed, not vice versa. ‎

On the other hand, a government that relies on oil revenues and a nation that relies on the ‎government, both are and will be weak. When a nation is not able to challenge and criticize its ‎public officials, the weakest and least healthy individuals are put in charge, and that is sufficient ‎in forming a weak government. A nation that does not consider such a blatant violation to be a ‎serious issue and resorts to jokes and humor as a way to react to it, would not have be left with ‎qualified people in charge of its affairs. Who do you think would replace Kordan if he was ‎removed? So long as a powerful Majlis that reflects and represents a powerful nation is not ‎formed, the door would revolve around the same hinge. So someone else not much different ‎from the predecessor will emerge.‎

So the issue is not the elimination of individuals like Kordan, but the elimination of cheating, ‎forgery, lying and dishonesty. ‎