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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:
In tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland our special guest, the researcher and university lecturer in philosophy of science Dr. Sadighi Yazdi will be sharing with us his expert views about the roots of the current problems of Iran and how they might be solved.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
Abbas Abdi, one the “students” who was involved in the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran turned “reformist activist” has responded to the rejection of all the Iranian regime’s factions by the Iranian people during their recent uprising by saying “so what?”
Why do you think the Iranian people must always choose between the bad and worse?
Dr. Sadighi Yazdi:
Sadly I must say that people like Mr. Abdi still belong to the time when the Islamic republic regime was established 40 years ago and their mindset has not changed at all.
When he says “so what?” he means the Iranian people are nobody and “it is us who will decide about their lives”. We must tell this gentleman “sorry, you are wrong and there are plenty of solutions to Iran’s deep rooted problems”.
The most straight forward, specific and workable solution is the establishment of a secular democratic system of governance to replace the ruling regime, followed by the participation of all Iranian experts and the educate elite, both inside and outsider the country, in rebuilding their motherland.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
In Iran the term “secular’ has always been abused by the regime to deceive our people into thinking that a secular regime will be against their faith or religious beliefs.
Dr. Sadighi Yazdi:
A secular system of government is based on political and civil rights for all the citizens of the country regardless of their personal religious beliefs or ideological tendencies and separation of religion from state. It is simply a civil society in which citizens interact socially according to the rule of law. All educational matters in this society are based on scientific rules as opposed to religious beliefs.
However, no one will be forced to abandon his or her religious beliefs, which is entirely a private and personal matter but not a privilege over someone else.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
That basically means that a mullah cannot sit in a mosque and determine how the Iranian people must live their lives or pass laws to sustain their repressive rule. Laws that currently force 75 days of the calendar year to be allocated to mourning for this or that Imam, while imposing the most barbaric and corrupt regime of all times over our people.
Dr. Sadighi Yazdi:
Unfortunately while the influence of people like Abbas Abdi within the establishment has been reduced, they are still socially active in the margins of the regime and accuse anyone who opposes their obsolete ideas as “barandaz”, people who want to end the current regime.
However, even the overthrow of this regime will not necessarily bring about democracy and prosperity for Iran. We have a historical cultural problem in Iran and political changes alone will not reform our society.
Look at the so-called elite of their regime. What have they done to reform our society? Their mindset is static but they present themselves as the real alternative to the regime.
They will go to any extent to stop other Iranian groups and individuals with true solutions for our people’s problems to come to power and just want to see their “Mr Khatami” to begin yet another period of talking about his “dialogue of civilizations” while the country’s wealth is being plundered and the people’s trust is abused to keep the mullahs in power.
