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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program:
New cases of corruption among the regime’s officials is revealed;
Will Iran withdraw its troops from Syria?
The UN and the question of the Yazidee hostages of the ISIS
Our guests tonight are Dr Alireza Nourizadeh and Hassan Shariatmadari
Jamshid Chalangi:
The regime’s intolerance towards dissent has reached new low levels as it has now arrested Dr Ghassem Sholesaeedi, a former MP, for just asking for the abolition of the vetting system for presidential and parliamentary elections.
Dr Alireza Nourizadeh:
This regime is based on obsessions and deception. Since his rise to power Khamenei has always had this paranoia that the entire world is plotting against him and the regime.
His mind lives in a small world that has been created by this obsessions and the nonsense that his appeasers tell him every day, and as such he lives in a very small world of his own.
And yet with this backward mentality he has turned all the countries of the world into enemies of our country.
Hassan Shariatmadari:
One major lever for the regime to sustain its despotic rule is this vetting system of all the candidates in Iran’s undemocratic elections.
The vetting simply purges even the mildest opponents of the regime and bars them from reaching a position where they could become a pain in the neck of the regime.
Dr Shoelesaaedi and many other politicians have correctly identified this barrier to a meaningful and free election in Iran and naturally the regime will not tolerate their public opposition and has imprisoned him and others with him.
Dr Alireza Nourizadeh:
The regime keeps talking about rampant corruption while deceitfully tries to divert any investigation of the many real sources of corruption that stem from Khamenei’s own office and his cronies.
In the case of the $750 million theft of the money for the oil platform that was done by Mr Bagheri and Mr Taheri, they are both connected to Khamenei’s office. The judiciary arrested Taheri for only one day and then released him because Bagheri, his brother-in-law, intervened and got him out of detention.
