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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 the program with the happy news of Ms Jila Mossaed’s selection to the Nobel Academy Committee in Sweden and will mention some of her other achievements in the fields of poetry and indeed her professional life.
Ms Mossaed writes poetry both in Persian and Swedish and I am sure every Iranian is honored for her becoming a member of the Nobel Academy.
The bazaar strike by merchants and traders across Iran has been another blow to the regime’s hallow show of power and repressive measures, and we have now received a few video clips of their actions which has taken place up and down the country and shaken the regime’s wobbly foundations further.
Several political thugs of the regime including Hassan Abbasi and Sardar GholamrezaJalali have uttered their usual nonsense opposition views about Iran joining the global convention to cut off terror financing.
These idiots think that this convention has been passed by the world against Iran and its regime only. But their main concern is that from now on the regime cannot easily provide millions of dollars of cash to Hassan Nasrullah of the Hezbollah and many other terrorist groups across the world that have wreaked havoc in the world peace.
In the second part of the program we will speak to our special guest Dr. Sadiq Yazdchi about secularism and the roots of superstitious ideas.
This topic is particularly important as there is a major question that why a country like Iran which was fast moving towards modernization suddenly a reactionary and backward regime took over it, which has been advocating medieval ideologies.
Dr. Sadiq Yazdchi:
This is a fundamental question that can even be seen among Iran’s intelligentsia.
We must note that we are faced with a major historical element of Iranian psyche, which is their religious and Shia beliefs.
This is not the work of one person only and anyone who feels responsible towards the culture of Iran must share a responsibility towards providing a lasting solution for it.
We cannot simply wash away the beliefs that have etched into the minds of our people for many centuries over night. The previous regime did not attend tothis problem either and the disaster only worsened after the revolution when the new regime made the promotion of those reactionary ideas as the basis of Iranian “cultural values”.
The only solution appears to be to promote secularism and complete separation of religions from the state and focusing on secularization of the education system, from nurseries to higher education.
We do not need to mourn every single day of our lives to believe in a faith. We should celebrate life and freedom of choice.
