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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program we will look at why the US has designated the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organisation and what does this mean for the Iranian people.
We will also look at the economic consequences of the oil sanctions on Iran as Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has described it as very grave. However, the cleric Alam Ulhoda has claimed that the only 4 percent of Iran’s export revenue is from the oil!
Meanwhile Mohammad Javad Zarif has been talking about exchanging prisoners with Western countries but the UK government has reacted by opposing it as a means of political ransom.
Our guests tonight are Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Dr. Mehran Barati.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
The US laws prevent an easy way of transferring money to Iran and there are certain special offices that look into this issue in the country.
Thousands of Iranians live the US who transfer their inheritance to Iran and in fact in the matter of sendinghumanitarian aid the US is among the first countries in the world that play a major role in this affair.
In addition to the US aid to the victims of the recent flood disaster in Iran, the Saudi government has alsosent many tents to Iran.
I remember after the liberation of Khoramshahr the foreign ministers of Kuwait, UAE, and Saudi Arabia had come to the aid of Iran and Hashemi Rafsanjani has written in his memoirs that together these three countries wanted to offer 60 billion dollars of aid to Iran.
However, the regime had rejected this huge and constructive help and insisted in the continuation of the war, but still wanted to receive the money.
It is a fact that the US is not the enemy of Iran and the Iranian people, but rather this fascist regime is.
Dr. Mehran Barati:
About two months ago we heard from some sources inside the regime that the country’s food reserves will only last for another two months and this was even before the recent devastating flood across the country.
If what people like Alam Ulhoda claim was true, then the regime did not even need any revenue form the oil.
But we know very well that theregime is now desperately selling Iran’s oil on open seas and on black markets to just provide food and medicine for the nation and this is all at the same time that the country’s official media is every day exposing more corruption among the top leadership of the regime.
And this is beside the millions of dollars that it spends on the Hezbollah of Lebanon and its proxies in Yemen, and Syria and Iraq.
