As two common types of strategies in the Persian politeness system, \\\'self-lowering\\\' and \\\'other-raising\\\', originally coined by Beeman (1986), may be broadly regarded as two stylistic devices which reflect the speakers\\\' humility, on the one hand, and their deference to their interlocutors, on the other hand. By analyzing some formal political speeches made by a number of former members of Iranian Parliament during the impeachment of the then-minister of the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance and the subsequent statements made by him to defend his policies, this paper has identified, categorized, and analyzed the linguistic forms—that is, pronominals, forms of address and verbal expressions—reflecting either of the above-mentioned politeness strategies in the realm of formal political discourse. The frequency of occurrence of the exponents bearing on each of the two strategies in question has also been computed.

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