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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:
In Iran’s history we remember the Mongols as people who came, destroyed, killed and finally left. It is now the same story for the ruling regime in our country and the order for their departure has been issued by our nation.
When in last summer I attended a conference of opposition groups in Washington I met with several US government officials and told them that they should not let the Iranian regime make use of the empty building of Iranian embassy in Washington.
My argument was that the regime in Iran has occupied the US embassy in Tehran against all international conventions and treaties and has given it to the Quds force to train terrorists on its grounds.
Terrorists from all across the world come to this occupied site and get training. It is only too correct and appropriate that the Iranian embassy building in Washington is given to the true representatives of the Iranian people and now Mr Brian Hook has publicly announced that.
Now Prince Reza Pahlavi or Iranian republican opposition groups should be based in this building and carry out their activities as it belongs to the Iranian people, not the regime that represses them.
As the NBC new agency has put it: The State Department is circulating the video on its social media platforms in Farsi that target Iranian audiences, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Telegram.
In the video, the Trump administration’s special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, strolls pensively past the ornate teal-and-beige embassy. He says in English that the U.S. has been caring for the embassy’s security, maintenance and landscaping for 40 years, since the countries cut ties amid the revolution.
“Even the Persian rugs and artwork that were once here are still preserved in temperature-controlled storage facilities to give back to the Iranian people once our diplomatic ties are restored,” Hook says.
