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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 Dr. Manouchehr Farahbakhsh who would share with us his expert views about Iran’s economic and political issues.
We start by asking him, in his view, what is the difference between Khamenei’s Year 1444 Document for future of Iran and Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s 2030 Vision for modernizing Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Manouchehr Farahbakhsh:
Iran’s present and future survival has been compromised by the Islamic republic regime and the kind of childish and nonsense issues that the regime is concerned with can be found in no other country of the world.
The problems of a country like Venezuela are quite clear and if the US resumes its purchasing of Venezuela’s oil, their problems would be almost solved.
But the problems of Iran are so complicated anddifferent. There are problems of unemployment, inflation, corruption, and trade deficient and you name it. But these are all the effects and we must look at the cause.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
What is the cause?
Dr. Manouchehr Farahbakhsh:
Sadly, even us the economists have been mainly tied up with the effects including the foreign exchange issue, but to get to thebottom of the problems we must look at the regime and how it continues its existence.
We have three types of economies: Marxist economy; Private-State economy and the Free Market.
During the time of the Shah our economy was based on the supply and demand theory of Private and State run rules.
The Private sector was free to operate in a free market and regulated competition and the major projects of the country werehandled by the state.
However, all those set and regulated economic principles were destroyed overnight after the Islamic revolution, as the new regime began to confiscate all the assets of the private sector and seized people’s wealth and savings through the so-called revolutionary organizations and wreaked havoc on Iran’s foreign trade.
Over the last 40 years the regime has come up with several meaningless “economic systems” like the “economy of resistance” or “Islamic model of economy”, which are simply covers for the control of the oil revenue of the country by the Revolutionary Guard and Khamenei’s financial empire.
So, when we talk about the numerous economic problems of the country and look for their cause, we must go to Mr. Khamenei and tell him that he and the organizations under his command are the main cause!!
