A Window to the Fatherland/Dr. Nourizadeh/March 14

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.

We begin our conversation as we are only a few days away from the arrival of Nowruz and the Persian New Year of 1398.

Dr Mohsen Sazegara:

I take this opportunity and wish everyone who celebrates it a Happy Nowruz.

I was in a meeting with some journalists and media people who wanted to know more about the roots of Nowruz.

I put it very simply to them and described it as a celebration of life with all its ups and downs, contrary to the sad and mourning ideology of the regime that has been ruling Iran for the last forty years.

I told them that it does not matter if you are a Kurdish, Azeri, Baluch or Arab Iranian, for all of us Nowruz is the cement that binds us together as a united nation.

Our young generation in particular had rejected the depressant ideology of the regime and seeks happiness and a bright future for itself beyond the present regime of sadness and darkness.

I was asked how poor and hungry Iranians find time to celebrate when they face so many problems in their lives, and my answer was that Nowruz and its message of hope are the force that keeps them going.

I told them that the revolution in Iran had lost all its remaining force and energy and they should ignore Khamenei’s huffs and puffs about injecting revolutionary ideas into the regime’s leadership as even his closest associates laugh behind his back when they hear them.