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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will discuss with our guests Afshin Afshinjam and Saeed Ahmadi the ever increasing factional fighting within the regime and its complaint against US in the International Court of Justice, as well as the recent Caspian Sea Convention.
The earthquake-hit people of Sarepole Zahab in Western Iran still do not even have any proper bathrooms. Whom should we blame for this appalling condition of our fellow Iranians?
Afshinjam: You pointed at a very important problem of our people. However, where in one part of Iran our fellow-Iranians do not have a toilet, in another part they do not even have any drinking water.
The plight of the Iranian people up and down the country resembles to a country in which there is no responsible ruler and lawlessness is the norm.
But the fact of the matter is that the country is indeed ruled by a bunch of corrupt and inefficient people whose only preoccupation is to squander the country’s wealth and do not give a damn to how the rest of the population lives or dies.
Ahmadi: In the Western democracies governments are chosen by the people and are responsible to those who have given them the mandate to rule and run the country.
But in Iran the ruling regime may pretend to have been chosen by the people butonce in position of power they carry out policies that have nothing to do with the interests of the Iranian people.
And it does not matter if these “elected” people belong to the so-called reformists or the hardliners, as they are all servants of the dictatorial system of Velayateh Faghih or the absolute rule of the Supreme Leader. Therefore any expectation from this regime to care for the people is in vain.
You can see that even when they announce to the world that their president has been elected in a free election and represents the majority of the people, he isnothing more than a stooge of the Supreme Leader to the point that he coulddismiss him any time he wishes as for all the factions of the regime its survival is the prime objective.
Afshinjam: Rouhani has been summoned by MPs to the Majles in a staged show to explain his economic failures but they all know the roots of Iran’s socio-economic problems, which goes back to the reactionary and corrupt nature of the regime.
Ahmadi: This regime is not an Iranian entity. While it is spending millions of dollars rebuilding the Syrian army of the murderer Assad, our own Iranian retired army officers and their families have not been receiving their pensions for many months.
And as the most rogue regime of the world it has suddenly found out that the US has contravened a 1955 international convention with Iran and filed a complaintwith the International Court of Justice!!
