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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:
A friend of mine has asked me to read my poem of 40th Birthday for him and I told him he must appreciate his young life, as the world is full of people who do not appreciate friendships.
I personally like Mohammad Nourizad as a very good friend. When you see him kissing the foot of Jewish kids in respect for their religion, or sits down and listens to the problems of the earthquake victims, then you can see that he is genuinely a decent man.
Now the regime has jailed him for putting his signature under the open letter to the Iranian people along with 13 other civil rights activists calling for Khamenei’s resignation and the change of Iran’s constitution.
The government of the United Arab Emirates has decided to close down the bank accounts of all Iranians.
I fully agree with the closure of the bank account of people like the son-in-law of Mr Shamkhani, the chairman of Iran’s national security council, who has stolen millions of dollars and deposited them in the UAE’s banks. Or for that matter, let’s close down the bank account of Bashar Assad’s brother.
But it is totally wrong to close down the bank account of those decent Iranian businessmen who have been trading honourably in UAE for many decades and force them to open accounts in shabby small banks in the country.
Tonight our special guest Mr Reza Tabatabaie who has lived in Dubai for many years can share his view with us about the condition of life for Iranian communities in thePersian Gulf states.
Mr Reza Tabatabaie:
I believe the course of events in the region indicates that there is a major economic war going on in there which has started after US exit from the nuclear deal with Iran and the consequent economic sanctions on the country.
The US has openly declared that it aims to bring down Iran’s oil export to zero but Iran is currently selling between 300-500.000 barrels daily and Rouhani has said that if Iran cannot export its oil then it will close the Strati of Hormuz, which is exactly what is happening now.
If the government of Iran could not sell 200-300,00 barrels of oil per day it will not be able to pay the salaries of its civilservants and as the oil minister Bijan Zanganeh has put it, the US is now implementing the sanctions very diligently and has forced buyers to abandonIran’s oil market and go for other major suppliers.
I think at the end of the day Iran must end itsnefarious actions and resort to peaceful diplomatic efforts to end the current dangerous tensions in the region, as it will not benefit form its continuation.
