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In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will look at the continuation of the workers strike at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Factory and Ahwaz Steel Plan, as a group of Iranian lawyers have offered to defend those workers arrested during their protest actions.
Another member of Rouhani’s cabinet admits the presence of money laundering in Iran as the regime’s factions are locked into a new round of friction and rivalry over the issue of joining the FATFconvention, which would stop the regime from financing terror groups.
The British Foreign Secretary has visited Iran and met with the family of the imprisoned Nazanin Zagheri in a gesture of support for her release.
In the region, Benyamin Netanyahu has rejected to hold an early general election in Israel.
And the Turkish Foreign Minister is in Washington for talks with US officials about the Iran sanctions.
Our guest tonight is Mr Reza Moini of the Reporters Without Borders.
Reza Moini:
We have already spoken many times about how the dictatorial regimes think that they benefit from crack downs on civil protests and censorship.
The Islamic republic regime has turned the Iranian society into a censored society but the new technology of communications defies this order and nothing can stop the spread of facts and news any more.
Basically, in Iran of today there is a constant battle between a regime that tries to stifle the spread of news and truth and the free flow of information that cannot be controlled by it.
I think the regime has realized that in this battle it has lost and we do not live in the conditions of 40 years ago when it could try and execute people behind closed doors.
