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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 reading a poem by the late Monireh Banoo, the daughter of ayatollah Shariatmadari, who died earlier this week.
Here we have the children of a progressive ayatollah whose daughter is a poet and his son, our colleague, Hassan, had studied engineering.
But when you look at the children of the clerics who had opposed ayatollah Shariatmadri’s views about Iran’s future, they are all a bunch of corrupt people who are only interested in plundering the wealth of our nation.
Our people showed their respect for the ayatollah, his views and his family, by attending the funeral of Monireh and mourning her death.
Tonight we ask Mr Hassan Shariatmadari about his views on this and other news of Iran:
Mr Hassan Shariatmadari:
Our family are grateful to the Iranian people for their sympathy to us during these very difficult times for our nation.
The ruling regime in Iran has for forty years tried and failed to remove the name and legacy of my late father.
He had offered very wise and reasonable solutions to Iran’s turbulent years before that destructive revolution.
If we had followed the path that my father had put forward, our country would not have ended up in its current impasse today.
The fact that many people from various sections of our society have attended my sister’s funeral shows that my father’s views for a progressive and prosperous Iran were right.
As for other Iranian news, I must say that regardless of the real reason behind it, President Trump’s decision to designate the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation is in the interest of the Iranian people’s struggle against the ruling regime.
After the war with Iraq the Guards entered Iran’s economic structure and by now have turned it into an empire that controls all aspects of our nation’s social, cultural and political life.
The Guards are directly involved in the oppression of our civil rights activists and have turned the justice system into their tools for this purpose.
They must be dissolved and their top ranks brought to justice, while their junior members should become part of our national army to protect our borders.
