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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 talking to our special guest of every Thursday, Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, for his views about news of Iran and the Middle East.
The regime in Iran has some nerves! They have bombed the two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and now that the international community has condemned their action they have summoned the British ambassador to the foreign ministry and told him why London has said they hold the regime accountable for this bombing!!
Mohsen Sazegara:
I think we need to put the clock back a bit and look at how President Trump has been handling the Iran Problem.
Even before becoming the president he had pledged that with Iran he would follow a policy completely different from that of other previous US administrations.
Trump has been attacking the regime in several fronts. It wants to curb its nefarious activities in the region and beyond.
He wants the regime to stop its nuclear program all together and end its ballistic missile tests.
Trump has opposed the regime’s call for the annihilation of the state of Israel.
He has imposed sanctions on Iran’s financial links with the world and is calling for new negotiations for a different nuclear deal, as he says the current one has given the regime extra muscles to expand its negative influence in the Middle East.
However, to confront Trump’s policy, the leadership in Iran has been hoping to pit the Europeans against Washington.
And at the same time they have shown a radical policy of projecting their military power and readiness to face any US move in that respect.
But the reality is that the military power of US in the region is one hundred and sixty times more than the combined armed forces of Iran.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
From the US point of view they expect all these extreme political and financial will either bring the regime to the negotiating table or lead to more dissent among the population.
