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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 first looking at a video clip of a group of students entering their first year class and how teachers are trained in Iran.
In tonight’s program we will look at how Seyed Ali Khamenei has all along based his leadership on the support of the Revolutionary Guard and the regime’s intelligence ministry.
His love for the Guards is not something new. In the beginning of his leadership period as the supreme leader, he used to pretend that he has a great deal of respect for Iran’s national army and had a close relationship with its commanders.
This was his tactical approach as then the commanders of the Guards were very close to Hashemi Rafsanjani and Khomeini himself.
However, things immediately changed after Khamenei became the supreme leader in the late 1980s. Since then he has set up several intelligence units within the army, the Guards, the judiciary and other organs of the regime to bring all of them under his own control.
He has openly confessed that if the Guards were not protecting the Islamic revolution (to be read as the clerical regime), it would not have survived.
It should not come as a surprise that the US has now designated the Guards as a terrorist group as it is a major base of the regime’s power structure to the extent that it controls Iran’s domestic and foreign policies.
Khomeini had once said that if the US behaves friendly towards Iran he does not see any problem in establishing relations with it. However, Khamenei’s ideological hatred of the Western world and America has been the roots of Iran’s numerous problems and has ruined our country.
But he would only agree to negotiate with the US if he feels that the regime’s survival is in danger, as he did in the talks that led to the nuclear deal.
