Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:
From demolishing houses by force in Tehran to extend their women-only Al Zahra university, to building 30,000 houses in Syria with Iranian people’s money;
From boasting it’s anti-Americanism to begging Washington to keep its 1955friendship deal with Iran;
From the fall of Iran’s national currency to the rise in the number of thefts of foreign currency reserves and transferring them abroad;
The double standard and deception of the Iranian regime knows no boundaries:
We discuss these topics with our guests, Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Dr. Hassan Mansour.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
These houses were built 70 years ago and their residents include from grand fathers to their grand children. The value of their properties have gone up considerably over the years and now the university and the interest groupings that are behind it want to seize them and pay a meager amount of money to their rightful owners that they can not even rent a small room with it.
Ali Khamenei is stealing the Iranian people’s money to build 7000 houses,kindergartens and hospitals in southern Lebanon for the Hezbollah but his regime is destroying these families’ lives to extend a university that produces obedient followers for his dictatorship.
I have said it many times before that this regime is an occupying force and its members are not Iranians. If we let them carry out their occupation of our country soon it will be reduced to a desolate land.
Dr. Hassan Mansour:
Deeds of property and ownership of land under this regime are not recognized as legal and lawful documents but a “gift” that has been given to the citizens by the rulers. As such, the ruler or the dictator who feels the country is his ownproperty can take it back any time he wishes with no consideration as to what happens to the people who become homeless as a result of his cruel decision.
In this particular case, this religious university is listed among the properties run by Khamenei’s headquarters and office.
In confiscating and seizing people’s properties and personal wealth, the current rulers of Iran act exactly the same way as the invading Muslims did to Iranmany centuries ago as they regard these properties belonging to the “infidels” that justifies their action.
Mohammad Khatami, the former president has confiscated a luxurious palace that once belonged to the former Iranian prime minster Manouchehr Iqbal, and yet he calls himself a “reformist”.
Every single official of this regime looks upon the material wealth of Iran as his own which is a mentality that they have inherited through their Islamic ideology of the prehistoric time but apply it to the modern world.
In Iran we are not dealing with a system of government, it is an occupying force that is busy distributing the wealth of the nation among its followers and supporters.