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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 playing a video clip that shows a man attempting suicide by setting himself on fire in protest at a massive fine that the Tehran municipality has asked him to pay, which has driven his small business to bankruptcy.
This is the tragic story of very many Iranians these days whose lives have been destroyed by the economic woes that the country is facing as a result of decades of corruption among the regime’s officials.
One of these officials is certainly the former mayor of Tehran, Mr. Ghalibaf, who has personally embezzled millions of dollars for himself and the12000 strong army of his cronies and subordinates.
How desperate must a father have become in life to try to kill himself in front of the eyes of his own children, as has been the case of this poor man. Shame on all of this regime’s officials and its leadership!
By now everyone knows my view of Ahmadinejad and his corrupt cronies. However, among his close associates Esfandiar Rahim Mashie stands out as the smartest one of them.
He is currently on trial accused of corruption and “spying”. I agree with many of the charges against him and the corrupt clique that facilitated Ahmadinejad’s rise to power.
However, in defence of humanity, I must say that the trail of Mashie is a travesty of justice and a slur on the face of the Islamic republic regime.
He has been asked by an ignorant thug acting as the prosecutor, called Ghazanfar-Abadi, to read from a prepared text to confess to having been in touch and relationship with the widows of two former Iranian heroic generals who were executed after the fall of the Shah’s regime.
In reality, these two respectable widows, in their eighties, had written to Mashaie while he was serving as Ahmadinejad’s deputy, asking for protection of their dead husbands’ graves. The prosecutor has likened the correspondence with Mashie as “the evidence of his contacts with the enemies of the state”!
And this is the same Esfandiar Rahim Mashie whom Ali Khamenei had described “as dear and close as my own sons Mujtaba and Mustafa” only a few years ago and at the time of these correspondence!!
If anyone should be tried in Iran today for spying, it must be Javad Amoli Larijani, the brother of the head of judiciary, who in 1996 had privately sat down with the British ambassador in Tehran and had told him that if the British government facilitates his rise to power as the next president of the Islamic republic, he would serve London, and Washington, as their subordinate and would serve their interests wholeheartedly!
Now Abolfazl Ghadiani, a senior member of the loyal opposition, the Mujaheddin of Islamic Revolution group, has publicly announced that the reformist movement in Iran and the Rouhani government are nothing more than the servants of the Khamenei’s dictatorship and the removal of Khamenei from power must become the uniting slogan for all Iranian freedom fighters and political activists.
Ghadiani has slammed Rouhani for failing to even realize one of his many empty electioneering slogans and leading the country to an abyss by becoming a lackey to Khamenei’s whims.
In other words, Ghadiani is speaking for millions of Iranians who are demanding the end of the Islamic republic regime.
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