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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 begin tonight’s program with finding out why Mohammad Javad Zarif
has announced his resignation on Instagram. Why Rouhani is so keen to see the back of Zarif in his cabinet?
Has Rouhani promised to give Zarif’s job to one his close friends? Why Zarif had not been present during the meeting of Bashar Assad and Khamenei? And many more questions that needs to be answered before finding out why Zarif has left the scene.
Assad knows very well that if it were not for Khamenei’s support he would have been lying in his grave by now. But Khamenei’s adventurist policy in Syria has been at the cost of hundreds of thousands of deaths and at least 20 billion dollars of Iranian people’s money when most of them live under poverty line these days.
Assad’s sudden trip to Iran aims to coordinate Syria’s response to the Israeli attacks on his country with the Iranian regime and its proxies.
He is also trying to make sure that the Russian presence in Syria will continue and will try to present himself as a victor in the civil war so he could gradually go back to the Arab nations’ fold who will be gathering in Jordan next month for the Arab League’s summit.
Going back to Zarif’s resignation, he had already shown his intention to do so last month but wanted to announce it at the Majles.
However, Khamenei was unhappy about this public announcement as then Zarif would have had to explain the reasons for his resignation which were partly due to Khamenei’s position on the nuclear deal and his opposition to the European countries.
I do not believe the Warsaw conference was after planning the overthrow of the regime. It was a forum to show that the Iranian regime is the single most dangerousregime to international peace.
Zarif had come out of the Munich Security Conference as a victor, which had worried some of his opponents within the regime who feared he might be aiming to replace Rouhani as the president.
