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We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
Tonight I wish to report on the last week Conference of Washington, which had been organized with the sole objective of uniting the various Iranian opposition groups who care for the future of their country and people, and at the same time do not wish to see it is dragged into a war or being partitioned or liberated by the Americans with the same consequences that fell upon Iraq and Libya.
The foundations for this Conference had been laid about three years ago when a group of us gathered in London. Then some fifty individuals from almost all Iranian opposition groups and parties, minus the Mujaheddin, attended that gathering.
We have nothing to do with the Mujaheddin and they do not have anything to do with us except bombarding us with their taunts and insults.
For the Washington Conference, neither the Americans nor the Saudis paid us. Only four or five Iranian patriots who love their country, namely Shahrokh, Reza, Kiomars and Katayoun, accepted to sponsor the costs of inviting the speakers and our guests to the event, including our American friends.
The Conference had no hidden agenda and known individuals like Fariborz Bakhtiari, Kak Abdullah Mohtadi, Dr. Hossein Bor and Dr. Hasan Hashemian as well as Mohandes Kordestani and Dr. Shahriar Ahee and Dr. Mohsen Sazegara (despite his illness) and Jamshid Chalangi attended it, plus a number of foreign dignitaries. In all, there were 185 participants in it.
The meeting was progressing calmly until when Dr. Karim Abdian, the founder of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization, began to describe the suffering of the Iranian Arabs under the despotic regime of the Islamic republic. Dr. Abdian’s emphasis on the use of ethnic languages in Iran in opposition to our national Farsi language met with some criticisms from the audience and he in turn lost his temper and his speech was disrupted.
I for one have gone through far worse reaction from the audience when in Germany the supporters of Mujaheddin punched me in the face and threw paint on my clothes.
I therefore reminded the audience that there is nothing wrong with Farsi being our national language that unites us as a nation, and our ethnic peoples being free to also speak in their own language in a liberated and democratic Iran.
After all, our main objective at the moment is to oppose any military attack on Iran and leave the task of overthrowing the Iranian despotic regime in the hands of our brave and struggling people.
Today we must unite around the slogan of freeing Iran from the claws of the corrupt and tyrannical regime of Islamic republic and any trivial dispute among our ranks will simply delay this holy mission and prolong the suffering of our people.
