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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 talking to our dear guest of every Thursday Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, who would share with us his expert views about the news and current affairs of Iran and the Middle East region.
But before that, it has now become a mystery for me why Khamenei, with so many highly paid so-called advisors around him, has repeated his claim again that during the era of the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties Iran had been the most backward country in the world and that under the Shah’s regime Iran only produced one percent of all scientific achievements in theworld.
Why do you think Khamenei is uttering this nonsense these days?
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara:
They say when they reach the end of their lives, all dictators of the world lose their marbles and just utter rubbish things.
He keeps talking about this so-called Year 1444Document whose cousin Vaez-Zadeh has put together after gathering a groups of people and spending millions of tomans on them to write it up and Khamenei has put his signature under it. This Document, which purports to guide Iran into a bright future is nothing more than an essay with no foundations.
It is true that under the Qajars the kings hardly cared about advancing Iran, but we had patriotic prime ministers like Amir Kabir who was a great reformist and even Fathali Shah of Qajar of 120 years ago was more progressive than Khamenei of today.
Reza Shah implemented the reforms of the intellectuals of the Constitutional Revolution while the freedoms of the parliaments were curtailed. However, the Pahlavi dynasty turned our traditional society upside down and modernized it.
As people who lived during the time of MohammadReza Shah and witnessed those deep reforms, we can only laugh at Khamenei’s fake data and statistics about how Iran was before the Islamic revolution.
If he wants to look like a diplomat and intellectual, he must stop talking like an illiterate mullah.
If you ask 100 Iranians to express their view about the Islamic republic’s leaders and officials, 90 people would say they regard them as a gang of thieves, charlatans and members of the Mafia interest groupings.
And Khamenei himself is directly responsible for all the ills of the Iran of today as a result of his dictatorial rule combined with sitting on a corrupt financial empire and repressing all his opponents.
