Tehran’s mayor, Alireza Zakani, revoked a decree that appointed his son-in-law Hossein Heydari as his special advisor in an attempt to make urban management smart.

In a statement, Zakani said that making city management smart has a very important place in the plan he presented to the Islamic city council in Tehran.

He added that accessing sensitive data required handing over responsibility to an expert with whom he would be on the same page for everything.

Zakani said that in order to observe transparency, he issued an official order to appoint Heydari to this post, but this caused grievances among the population.

Zakani also said, “I want to work for the people and for the city to be ruled by the people, and with all due respect to the opinion of these guardians of the Islamic Revolution, I hereby revoke the order. given to Mr. Heydari ”.

A video ricocheted quickly on social media Wednesday showing a photo of the order issued by the mayor of Tehran. The video also showed Zakani’s televised remarks during his presidential campaign earlier this year, in which he vowed to fight nepotism and promote meritocracy if elected president.