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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:
Farrokh Negahdar, a well-known figure among theIranian exiles who as a member of the armed opposition group the Fadayeens played a role in the overthrow of the Shah’s regime and bringing Khomeini into power has sent a tweet and criticised “the harsh language that the opposition activists use against the Iranian regime’s officials”.
He has argued that during his time in opposition to the Shah, none of his comrades would insult the Shah and his officials and this must also be observed in respect of the Islamic republic regime.
One tweeter user has responded to Neghadar’s comment by reminding him that “it is best to insult the Islamic republic regime officials and leadership in words, as opposed to your language of armed violence, bombing, terrorism and killing innocent policemen in the name of revolution but actually acting on behalf of the then Soviet Union Communism and receiving bombs from Libya and training to become terrorists in radical Palestinians’ camps, Mr Negahdar!”
My own response to Farrokh is very simple; justlook at the reaction of the Shah’s regime to your own armed opposition to him. He always called you as saboteurs and a stooge of the foreign powers.
We receive the most insulting comments about our programs, which are mainly directed at us by the followers of the Mujaheddin Khalq. This type of language and “political insult” is the creation of the corrupt Islamic republic regime that has entered Iran’s politics.
We have been watching the videos of the Muharram religious mourning and processions from the time of the Shah and under the Islamic republic regime and can see a sea of difference between them.
The old videos show how our people were sincere in respecting their religious beliefs and how religion has become a means of exploiting them by the Islamic regime.
The news of desecration of the grave of Mohammad Ali Foroughi, the revered Iranian former prime minister, statesman and historian has come as a shock to all Iranian nationalists as the ruling regime and its thugs continue to show their blind animosity and hatred of Iranian culture and history.
And what else should we expect from a regime whose “cultural values” for our nation includes slashing one’s forehead with a sword to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hossein, who was in fact murdered by people very much similar to the current rulers of Iran!
