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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:
We continue the program with talking to our special guest of every Thursday, Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, and begin with asking him about the regime’s attempt to stop people from attending a memorial service at the grave of the late Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou.
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:
It is interesting that you began tonight’s program with remembering the late Ahmad Shamlou.
It goes without saying that poets, singers, musicians and writers are the cultural wealth of any nation and equal to scientists and social reformers in a democratic society.
Ahmad Shamlou has left a shining literary legacy for Iran and the regime is guilty of trying to discredit him. Sadly the newgeneration spends more time on social media and rarely delves into the wealth of Iranian literature and may be it is high time the lasting works of the likes of Ahmad Shamlou were to become available on social media to enhance the cultural heritage of the nation.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
In support of your point of view in this respect, I must say that on our Khalije Fars (the Persian Gulf) website we have an online magazine that promotes these cultural values and people like Ali Mirfetrousalso have a political and cultural website that does the same thing.
We must blame the tyrannical ruling regime in Iran for doing so much damage to our Iranian cultural heritage that has become the victim of its reactionary religious doctrine.
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:
Dictatorial regimes like the one in our motherland will go to any length to manipulate the minds of their citizens with their propaganda and by doing so turn them into obedient servants of their totalitarian system.
We have had similar cases in the contemporary history of the world like the former Soviet Union in Russia. The day that Stalin told the great Russian writers like Dostoyevsky what subjects they should write about it was the day that the Russian literary world died.
What has happened in Iran since the rise of theIslamic republic is hundred times worse.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
That is exactly why since the Islamic revolution Iran has had not even one star poet to match the quality of people like Naderpour, Shamlou or Shafiei Kadkani.
Rouhani has now appointed Abdul-Nasser Hemati as the new governor of the Central Bank who does not seem to have any crediblepast credentials. Do you think he is Khamenei’s choice?
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:
Even if not a direct choice of Khamenei, he must have had his backing to reach to this position.
I happen to know him from the time that he was our lecturer at the Faculty of Economics in Tehran University. I am not sure onwhat merits Rouhani has appointed him. Iran currently does not have any specific economic system for him to look after or improve its performance.
All of the regime’s economic plans have ended in failure simply because the system is embroiled in corruption, nepotism and Kleptocracy.
It is quite clear that Rouhani, who is a timid person, has now decided to be a slave to Khamenei’s whims and have anaggressive foreign policy and a repressive domestic policy.
And to implement these policies he is now relying on the support of the Revolutionary Guard and their repressive organs.
