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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.
Khamenei’s recent comments has really made me angry, to say the least.
Mohsen Sazegara:
I believe all Iranians are angry too. I have a friend who fought in the Iran-Iraq war and his son tells me that every timeKhamenei speaks on the television his dad throws anything he finds on the coffee table at the TV screen and he has to change the channel.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
I was listening to the comments of Mir Mahmood Mousavi, Iran’s former ambassador in Pakistan, who was complaining why we should go to Syria and Yemen when we have so many social and economic problems at home.
We have been exposing the corruption and despotism of the regime for too long and I believe it is high time our people inside the country did something to save Iran.
Mohsen Sazegara:
Your concerns are justified because Iran does not only face social or economic problems but also the fabric of our nation is falling apart under immense political, environmental and many other problems that they are effacing them every single day without any respite.
My son criticizes me and tells me is this regime the ideal government that people like me did their best to bring to power? And I tell him that we had never even imagined that such a regime would come to power and rule over our people. We must have been ignorant and inexperienced.
Even veteran politicians like the late Mehdi Bazargan too had never thought that the system that they were promoting all their political life would end up being such a despotic and corrupt government.
Every extra minute that this regime stays in power a new calamity will fall upon our people. When you look around and see how the world is changing so fast then you realize how under this regime we are going back instead.
I believe what Prince Mohammad Bin Salman is doing in Saudi Arabia today is similar to what Reza Shah did to Iran to turn a feudal system into a modern one that benefits their people in a modern and fast progressing world.
