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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:
Tonight we speak to our special guest Dr. Mohammad Hossein Sadigh Yazdchi who would share with us his views about why the Iranian people do not have much trust in our opposition groups.
Dr. Sadigh Yazdchi:
This issue requires a great deal of debate about it and we cannot possibly cover it in such a limited time.
However, I will try to explain some aspects of it in line with the previous conversations that we have had about it in the past.
We first need to know what system of governance is in power in Iran and how dothey rule over the people and then find out who supports this regime and who opposes it.
In the democratic governments of the Western countries, both in monarchical and republican systems, political parties and groups present their policies andsocial programs to the public freely and through their parliamentary systems and every four years time they take part in general elections.
If people agree with their programs then they get elected by majority vote and try to implement their policies.
Therefore, in democratic countries the opposition is not equal to being in power but in undemocratic countries the opposition groups and parties are not tolerated and they try to gain power through overthrowing the ruling regimes and this may involve armed struggle and violence.
We had a democratic way of coming to power for opposition groups and parties in Iran after the fall of Reza Shah which lasted for more than a decade but after that until 1979 this process had changed and even though the monarchical regime wanted to implement reform the opposition groups where mainly associated with left-wing pro-Russian Bolshevik mentality, Chinese Communism and nationalists who wanted to revive the Constitution Revolution’s ideals.
However, out of all these opposition groups finally a religious regime surfaced which requires further debate as to why this happened.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
You explained this issue very well and it is true that despite their adherence to various left-wing and radical ideologies as well as nationalist ideas, all Iranian opposition groups finally accepted the leadership of the clerical establishment in the 1979 revolution.
