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 first listen to the speech of the film director Kiomars Pourahmad at the funeral of TV producer Khashayar Alvand where he directly criticizes the atmosphere of fear, despair and sadness over Iran’s cultural and social life since the establishment of the Islamic republic regime.
The regime’s broadcasting organization is one of the main tools of spreading these negative aspects through superstition and sectarianism inside and outside the country.
It appears that the Zarif resignation saga is not to stop and he is himself behind it, as he has now said that the foreign ministry under his command must be responsible for all of Iran’s foreign relations matters.
Zarif only succeeded in his gamble because the regime does not have any other person at its disposal to replace him.
The regime has now broadcast a cheap “documentary” about how it has supposedly “infiltrated” in the opposition forces in exile by showing clips of a conversation between one of its agents and Ruhollah Zam who runs the Amad News website.
I have been in the world of journalism and publishing for more than half a century and can say this type of cheap ploys by the regime only reveals itsdesperation and at the same time the power of the media in exposing its crimes and corruption.
Now the religious intellectual Abdulkarim Soroush has made some astonishing comments about the position of Khomeini in Iran’s history.
He has described Khomeini as “the greatest scientist and politician throughout Iran’s history”.
We call on Soroush to retreat his disgraceful comments and apologize to millions of Iranians who have lost their beloved ones at the hands of a regime that Khomeini established which has destroyed our country.