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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:
Yesterday we discussed how urgently we need to hear the voice of those inside our country who have spent their lifetime caring for the peace and prosperity of our fellow Iranians.
Fortunately, the open letter by the 14 freedom fighters in which they have called for the resignation of Khamenei as the first step to save our country has now gained massive publicity as it has been signed by Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first post-revolution dean of Tehran University, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, Mohammad Nourizad, Kamal Jafari, Mr. Vahedian and Laal Mohammadi, and others, each of who have a long and honourable history of fighting for democracy, human rights and prosperity for our nation.
They have presented their case without any unnecessary heroism or radicalism and have correctly offered Khamenei to resign before too late and leave the scene and allow our people to determine their own destiny, rather than being hostage to his destructive ideological policies that have brought so much misery and calamities for our country.
Tonight Mristers Kamal Jafari, Laal Mohammadi and Nourizad are with us to explain how this group of veteran freedom fighters got together to write this open letter.
Mr. Kamal Jafari:
May be this group of people was not entirely known to the Iranians who live abroad. However, about two months ago Misters Vahedian, Laal Mohammadi and Sepehri came up with the idea and invited other friends to join them and do something urgently to save our motherland of Iran.
We discussed in depth how the current regime does not allow us to do this task and what are the real obstacles to achieve this objective.
At the end we all decided that only two demands of a fundamental change in our Constitution and at the same time the resignation of the Rahbar (Khamenei) can help achieve this aim.
Laal Mohammadi:
Every society needs to have a debate within itself about its own ills and its citizens must be allowed to criticize those in power to find solutions to their social and economic problems.
At the moment our country stands at the lowest place in the international community and millions of people have been forced to leave Iran and live in exile.
For many years many people have advised our leaders to change course but they have always ignored them and today the gap of distrust between our people and the regime is so wide and this has led to immense problems for our people.
We think we have found the main obstacle to achieving peace and prosperity for our country and its people and that is the authoritarian rule of the supreme leader who is not accountable to anyone and has abused the Constitution for his personal powers.
The cosmetic change of some of the articles of the Constitution will not suffice and it has to be changed fundamentally to strip Khamenei from his powers.
In our country where the elected president openly admits that he is nobody and has no powers it means only a dictatorship is ruling over us.
