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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, and begin with asking him about the confession by Nasser Shabani, a Revolutionary Guard commander, who has said that he had ordered the Houthis in Yemen to launch the missile attack on the two Saudi oil tankers two weeks ago.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
The Islamic republic regime has always denied its military presence in Yemen and being involved in military operations and arming the Houthis militias with missiles.
Shabani’s confession is meant to convey this message that “we, the Guards, are in Yemen and control the Houthis”.
This man was the commander of the Guards unit in the city of Amol some 37 years ago and at the time was involved in the murder and execution of many of the regime’s opponents.
Who would believe that he could possibly make such open confession without the consent of Ali Khamenei?
Hassan Rouhani has now become so marginalized and humiliated that couple of Guard commanders determine the direction of the regime and tell him what to do. How could such a divided regime with 40 sheriffs ever stand against the US might?
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:
I guess Shabani has gaffed here by inadvertently exposing the regime’s deep involvement in Yemen. He is the deputy commander of Sarrulah base in Tehran, which has been responsible for the killing of manyprotestors and I believe he is still in that post.
If you listen to what Ghassem Soleimani and Mohsen Rezaie have been saying over the last couple weeks, you will notice what nonsense they have been uttering about the US and how the regime intends tocounter its military might. Rezaie’s “analyses” of the region’s balance of power is so cheap, childish and worthless.
Their posture and rhetoric is an indication of their low IQ and one should not wonder as they were behind the rise of Ahmadinejad. Khamenei is circled by these types of illiterate “military commanders” who match his own mentality.
As for Rouhani’s current position within the regime, when Trump took the US out of the nuclear deal, Khamenei outlined anews strategy for the regime to survive based on resisting the pressure from outside, and more repression at home.
Rouhani has succumbed to this new strategy in the same way that Mohammad Khatami did some years ago when he declared that hisredline in politics is to save the regime.
However, Khamenei’s strategy is pushing the country to the verge of complete collapse and very dangerous situation, which wouldeventually end in the demise of the regime.
In Khamenei’s strategy of saving the regime the money that has to be spent on providing the basic needs of the Iranian people must be channeled into the hands of his repressive organs to crack down on protestors.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
And we in the opposition forces are constantly being criticised for not uniting among ourselves to stop further disintegration of our motherland at the hands of the mullahs.
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:
I think this picture of the opposition groups not being united is mainly promoted by the regime because we are certainly united in our demand for democracy, secularism and respect for human rights and the ousting of the despotic religious regime and replacing it with a new system of governance that can be either a republic or a monarchy, based on the preference of the majority of the Iranian people once this regime is gone.
