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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:
Tonight we speak with our special guest Dr. Hossein Lajevardi by asking him about his views about the latest news of our country in view of French president Macron’s behind the scene efforts to mediate between Tehran and Washington, while each party has put forward some pre-conditions before they could start talking to one another.
Dr. Hossein Lajevardi:
I have already discussed this matter on a number of occasions. My view is that the entire Iranian regime has only one aim and that is to stay in power at any cost. The talk of so-celled reformists versus conservatives is baseless.
However, that we do have two factions within the systems is true but each one of them wants to be in power but neither of them wants this in the interest of the Iranian people.
One faction is Khamenei’s that has the backing of the Revolutionary Guards and their policy to remain in power is through war, repression and violence andbloody purges of all voices of dissent.
I think once this regime has disappeared we will find out about those of its many victims that we have not even heard of them.
The other faction is formed of Rouhani, Khatami and Moussavi. I believe Moussavi is the most decent of them as at one point he separated his life and politics from the rest of the followers of this faction.
Rouhani on the other hand is the most deceitful of them.
As for the international support behind this regime, both the Western governments and the Russians are behind it simply because the regime looks after the interests of both to stay in power.
This includes Trump’s government, which keeps saying that he is not after the ousting of the regime in Iran.
All he has said about Iran since becoming the US president has meant that before the revolution Iran belonged to America and he wants it back!
Further more, it is in the interest of Trump to keep the Iranian regime in power because if a popular and democratic government comes to power in Iran he, and Mr Putin too, will not be able to sell billions of dollars of arms to the region.
We also have this problem of Iranian people suffering from the disease of not trusting any opposition groups.
Like Prince Reza Pahlavi, they keep changing their slogans and positions and this has caused confusion among our people. One day these opposition groups must sit down and decide who they want to lead them and then inform our people accordingly.
