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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:
We continue tonight’s program with first replying to some criticisms that we have received about reporting on the murder of the satellite TV owner Saeed Karimian by the Islamic republic regime.
We must insist that our report was correct and Saeed was assassinated by the regime and the story that says it was over a relationship with a woman is not correct.
Two members of the Hezbollah of Lebanon who had travelled to Turkey and assisted by an Iranian agent assassinated Saeed Karimian.
He had entered a dangerous game and had asked me for advice as he had receivedsecret information from Ahmadinejad and had been asked to open a new political TV channel to decimate that information. But I told him not to involve himself in that game.
One of the units of the Revolutionary Guard plotted his assassination and they also silenced his family. I am so sorry for his loss.
Later we will talk about the anniversary of the US embassy hostage taking in Iran by the ignorant so-called students that led to decades of Iran-US animosities and end of all their relationships.
The crisis ended the lives of many innocent Iranians who were accused of being US agents, chief amongst them the late Ezatullah Amir Entezam.
However, many of those “students” became millionaires as a result of their stupid action, the like of Asghar Zadeh, and others like Haj Ezzat were promoted to the head of Iran’s national broadcasting organization.
In the second part of the program we will mention how the Guardian Council hasrejected the ratification of the FATF bill by putting 14 major obstacles on its way.
And today the United States imposed strict sanctions targeting Iran’s oil, banking and industrial sectors and threatened more action to stop Tehran from pursuing outlaw policies, steps the regime has condemned as economic warfare and vowed to defy.
In his speech earlier today the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: “The Iranian regime has a choice: it can either do a 180-degree turn from its outlaw course of action and act like a normal country, or it can see its economy crumble”.
According to US State Department, the sanctions imposed by the US government are on:
A list of over 700 individuals, organisations, aircraft and vessels – 300 more than were named before the sanctions were lifted in 2015 – bringing the total number to 900.
Some 250 people designated as “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Person”
The operators of Iran’s ports, ship building sector and shipping firms, with some 200 people and vessels targeted.
Buying from or selling to Iranian oil firms and the sale of any petrol-based products from Iran
Transactions by foreign finance organisations with 50 Iranian banks, including the Central Bank of Iran
Insuring Iranian organisations or individuals
Iran’s energy and aviation sectors, with 67 aircraft named under the ban and sanctions on 23 people and organisations linked to the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.
And anyone found to “engage in certain transactions” with any of the above.
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