Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh, the only Reformist candidate approved by the Guardian Council in this election, said in an interview with ISNA that the people of Iran are inherently Reformist, pointing to the Tobacco Rebellion and Constitutional Revolution as historic reminders of the Iranian desire to improve their country through politics. He criticised the idea of Reformist and Principalist as political factions, saying that “these categorisations are not appropriate at all, and the only result of this approach is conflict and internal incoherence”.