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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:
Tonight our special guest Mr Hassan Shariatmadari will share his views with us about the creation of the Council for Transition of Power in Iran.
Hassan Shariatmadari:
The process of the establishment of the Council is going ahead according to theplan and we expect by the middle of September we should be able to officially launch it through a press conference attended by the media and our members.
However, as for the expansion of this Council we had already been talking to different opposition groups and have indicated that the doors of this Council are open to all those who are struggling to establish a civil society in Iran.
Having said that, our efforts outside Iran can never substitute the heroic struggle of all those men and women who are sacrificing their lives inside Iran itself to achieve this objective.
However, the sporadic struggle of all of us makes us prone to be targeted by the regime’s repressive reactions and disjoin our struggle.
As such, we believe a secure central command office that provides a platform for all of us to share our thoughts and ideas with each other is necessary.
We never claim to be the leader of this freedom movement or represent our entire nation and can say we humbly wish to be at the service of all of our dear and struggling people of Iran and our main task is to remove from their minds the fear as to what happens after the present regime is ousted.
There are questions in their minds that if Iran will be partitioned after this regime is gone or if the clerics leave the scene the Revolutionary Guards might take over.
These are very serious doubts that the middle classes might have and our task is to organize a national freedom movement that could attract international support for its success.
At the same time we want to inform our people that any elections that this regime holds is false and its results are rigged and they must not take part in them as the only one that benefits from such staged elections are the factions of the regime and Iran and the Iranians are the losers.
