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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 paying tribute to the legacy and memory of the late Shapoor Bakhtiar, on the eve of the anniversary of his murder at the hands of the agents of the barbaric Islamic republic regime.
I vividly remember the day when Bakhtiar informed me that he had accepted the post of the Prime Minster. The following day hewent to the grave of Dr. Mossadeq and delivered a speech about why he had accepted the responsibility and his plans for rebuilding a democratic Iran.
Some of his close associates in the National Front had criticised him for accepting the job, but he argued that it was his duty to make it clear for the Iranian people that what future they will have if theclerics led by Khomeini ever came to power in Iran.
The day he went to the Majles to swear to accept the post of the Prime Minister, deputies who were the pay of the secret police also attacked him, but Bakhtiar defended himself and his programs in face of their onslaught.
Although Bakhtiar had agreed to the return of Khomeini and even the Americans had told him that he could go back and will be safe, but Khomeini was still scared of returning to Iran.
And on the day that he returned, Bakhtiar had been told that people are taking down the Shah’s statues and he must do something to stop them, but Bakhtiar had told them that statues can always be erected again and all efforts must be made not to hurt anyone.
Even his cabinet was not loyal to him, except for Dr. Amouzagr and Dr. Razmara who supported him into his exiled life.
In exile Bakhtiar continued his struggle and gave many interviews, one of which was with Mr. Ali Limonadi that we would watch it again tonight.
And now, 40 years after those crucial days, Iran is witnessing yet another uprising as people on the streets are shouting “canons, tanks and missiles wont’s stop us as we demand an end to the rule of the corrupt and despotic mullahs”.
In the past every time we came across a mullah we used to offer our respect to them. One can only imagine the extent of the miseries and calamities that their bunch and their tyrannical rule has inflicted upon our nation that today they have no legitimacy whatsoever.
But the reactionary mullah Alam Ulhoda in Mashad has claimed that the people on the streets of Iran calling for the removal of the Islamic republic regime and corrupt people like him and his murderer son-in-law Ebrahim Raisee, “are Saudi and American nationals”!!
The time is over for any hope of this regime being capable of reforming itself. Whom or what do they want to reform anyway when they are all corrupt to their teeth?
I can firmly say that Jimmy Carter brought thisregime to power 40 years ago and Donald Trump’s plan is to overthrow it and end four decades of their bloody rule.
If the leaders of the regime want to avoid the faith of Saddam and Gaddafi, then they better leave the scene peacefully now and allow the Iranian people determine their own free future.
