Mottahari who represents Tehran in the Majlis and is a member of the culture committee of the legislative body told Khabar Online yesterday that such a conflict would benefit the country.
"I regard the Majlis' criticisms of the government as productive since it's in line with improving the executive mechanisms. We intend to reduce the administration's mistakes. This way such differences bear good results," he said.
He referred to do the impeachment of the former Interior Minister, the late Ali Kordan by the Parliament and said: "That was an example of clashes between the Majlis and the government which finally brought a good result for the Islamic Republic system."
In November 2008 the Parliament voted overwhelmingly to impeach Interior Minister of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government for including a forged honorary PhD degree from Oxford University on his resume. Kordan claimed he did not realize that his doctorate was not real and stressed that the Zionist news media had organized the campaign to dishonor him.
Ahmadinejad backed Kordan and fought hard to keep his minister. He called the impeachment illegal, but the Parliament Speaker Ali large Larijani rejected his allegation and noted: "It is very clear that the impeachment is legal." Kordan was ousted after serving for only three months.
Later a parliamentary investigation proved the not only that Mr. Kordan's PhD was faked, but that he did not have the bachelor's and master's degrees from an Iranian university he had alleged to study there.
A Tehran University philosophy instructor, Mottahari underlined that even questioning the president would be beneficial, "But unfortunately the issue will be immediately politicized by some media and the resulting hype derails the basic criticism from its original path, since it becomes sensationalized and lose its prime objective," he pointed.
One of the few outspoken critics of Ahmadinejad's government, Mottahari censured the administration's role in the turmoil occurred last year after presidential election of June 12, saying that even the opposition movement should be allowed to express its views.
On the subsidy reform plan, the most important economic project to be implemented after the Islamic Revolution and the Parliament-government disagreements over the issue he had also said the administration approach to a bill passed by the Majlis tends to despotism.
"When President Ahmadinejad says I won't enforce a law passed by the parliament, it means nothing except autocracy. Adopting a correct method, the government must first begin to execute the plan and if it faced a problem, it will send a bill to the Majlis to resolve the difficulty," the lawmaker had added.
Mottahari maintained: "The only good Majlis is not a dead Majlis. When the legislative body monitors the actions of the executive body and questions the officials, the result will promote the country's management."
He explained that his major criticism of the parliament is the wrong interpretations suggested by numerous lawmakers of "the rule of the jurisprudent" (velayat-e faqih) leading them to escape their responsibilities.
"It is a major problem which has obstructed the way to many forms of improvement and it's not in line with the ideas of the Islamic Republic's Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]," the parliamentarian said.
Ali Mottahari's father, the late Ayatollah Morteza Mottahari was a close student and ally of the founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Morteza Mottahari was a key theorist of the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979 and an influential figure who developed the ideology of the Islamic Republic.
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