A Window to the Fatherland/Dr. Nourizadeh/February 28

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 talking to our special guest of every Thursday, Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, for his views about the latest news of Iran and the region.

We begin by asking him about his view on Zarif’s resignation and then reversing it.

Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:

I think Zarif had already resigned two months ago but Khamenei had opposed it and asked him to continue with his job.

Then we had the issue of the arrest of some of the regime’s diplomats in Europe on terrorism charges. Zarif had at the time complained that he is sent to Europe to mend fences with the Western countries but the regime sends its terrorists to Europe to disrupt his efforts.

There are three reasons for his resignations; first the regime has two parallel sources of powers that negate each other.

Then we have Khamenei’s own decisions and rules that act above all executive powers of the state. And then the Revolutionary Guards who have their own policies and priorities.

At the same time the Iranian people have turned their backs on the regime and do not recognize any legitimacy for it and this has given rise to more rivalries to the regime’s factions to pursue their own interests regardless of what other factions think and do.

The regime’s intelligence apparatus do not trust Rouhani at all as he attempts to build links with the international community.

Zarif has now returned to his post but the majority of the staff at the foreign ministry are unhappy and the said problems will continue to overshadow their works.

And now we hear about the possible resignation of the oil minister Bijan Zanganeh.