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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:
The implications of the Caspian Sea Convention for Iran, as Mohammad Javad Zarif says no deal has yet been signed on the oil and gas resources of the sea! What is going on?
Later in the program we will talk about the Rex Cinema fire tragedy of 40 years ago and try to find out who was behind this heinous crime and what went on in the behind the door trails of the culprits.
But before that we pay our tribute to the memory and woks of the Iranian legendary film star Ezatollah Entezami who passed away this morning.
Our guests tonight are Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Mohammad Nourizad.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
I also offer my sincere condolences to the family of the late Entezami as well as to the Iranian people, as he was a national cultural star for all of us.
Mohammad Nourizad:
I too offer my condolences for his death and would add that it is a tragedy for Iran’s theater and cinema.
It is sad that the Ahmadinejad team had caused the late Entezami some distress by wrongly claiming that Mr. Entezami was one of his supporters.
Jamshid Chalangi:
We seem to have lost one of our national icons at the same time of losing part of our country through this Kazak Convention.
Why are the regime’s officials giving so many contradictory accounts of what exactly Iran has been given by this deal on the Caspian Sea?
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
Today we lost another cultural icon of Iran as the World of Sport magazine closed down after half a century of publication.
As for the Caspian Sea convention, Iran and the former Soviet Union had two equal shares of this sea and Iran had never used its own waters for military purposes.
Back in 1996 Dr. Maleki had entered negotiations with the Russians and had correctly told them that they, the Russians, must divide their 50% share among their three newly independent former republics bordering the sea as it was the case of a father who has died and his property should be inherited by his three sons.
Dr. Maleki had argued that the Russians had no right to confiscate Iran’s 50% rights to the sea’s resources. But Ali Akbar Velayati who was Iran’s Foreign Minister at the time sacked him for his stance on the matter.
Later in 2004 the French oil giant TOTAL entered the scene and Rustam Ghassemi the oil minister and Kerdan, Ahmadinejad’s right hand man, asked for commissions to allow oil exploration in Iranian waters but TOTAL refused and started its project with the republic of Azerbaijan.
Mohammad Nourizad:
I travelled to Baku about 12 years ago and noticed that the entire coast of Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea had become an oil exploration field. I can say that the Iranian regime had committed treason by then refusing to allow oil exploration on our own coast, and now accepting to give away our historic 50% share of the sea.
I am very suspicious of the relationship between Ali Khamenei and Putin. How could the leader of a country be so compromising and capitulating to the demands of the leader of another country?
The Caspian Sea convention has now been added as yet another case of selling out Iran’s national interest to the book of the Islamic republic regime’s treasons.
