Behind the Headlines/July 26

Tonight we will find out how the rising cost of living and corruption in Iran is affecting the lives of the citizens as new figures indicate unemployment and drug addiction is on the increase too.

Once again the regime is talking about another election in the country so peoplecould choose between the bad and the worse.

Cleric Pourmohammadi, one of the judges who ordered the execution of thousands of political prisoners has said he also believes the massacre was a crime against humanity.

And with a new prime minister in UK we will find out about the future of London-Tehran relations in view of the US-Iran tension.

Our gusts tonight to discuss these issues are Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Mr Reza Taghizadeh.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

I really wished that Khamenei and Rouhani would spend one week in the township of Sarbaz in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan and find out for themselves under what conditions our people who are on an ocean of oil reserves live.

The same is true of the people of the province of Khuzestan where the massive wealth of Iranian oil is situated but nowadays poverty and unemployment is the image of the area.

The Karoon River in the province has dried up due to the pollution caused by building of the controversial Gatvand dam and the oasis of date growings have disappeared all due to the regime’s policies that have only benefitted a few corrupt officials.

Now you keep hearing that Gahlibaf has done this and has done that while he was the mayor of Tehran, but they hide the fact that during his tenure 300,000 billion tomans of money has gone missing and the regime arrested some innocent people and executed them to silence the public while the real thieves are still roaming around in Iran.

I never thought a man who does not even comb his hair could one day become the British prime minister!!

Reza Taghizadeh:

Boris Johnson is the fifteenth prime minister during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second. Since the time of Churchill Britain has changed a lot and we all remember even back in 1984 when Argentine occupied the Falkland Islands Mrs. Thatcher sent her army to take them back in a war tens of thousands of miles away from Britain.

But compare it to today’s politics where a British tanker is seized by the Iranian regime in international waters and London does not even blink an eye.

The roaring British Lion as the symbol of the Empire is lying on its death bed and the rise of Boris Johnson may be the sign of this!!