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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s edition of Behind the Headlines we look at the continued strike by Iran’s truck drivers; Rouhani’s Iftar party, as well as the gathering of Iranian actors at the memorial service for the late Nasser Malak-Motiee.
We will also cover the latest news of Syria and find out if the Russians have started to distance themselves from the Islamic republic regime in a bid to repair their damaged relations with the US, as the North Korea’s top diplomat Kim Yong Chol visits the White House.
Our guests tonight are Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Dr. Mehran Barati. But we begin with Dr. Nourizadeh whose car has been stolen in London today!
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
Well, Mr Chalangi, the theft of my car is nothing in comparison with the way the regime in Iran has stolen our country!
The strike by Iran’s truck drivers should be looked at in a wider context, as they are mainly involved with delivery of agricultural products like fruits and crops.
Our farmers have been at the forefront of the victims of this regime as they have been forced to grow a produce that is not fit for their environment. They also suffer from water shortage and the result has been that the farmers have had to leave their lands and come to major cities for work.
If this regime stays in power in Iran for another two or three years it will certainly break up our motherland. The truck drivers’ nationwide strike is very important, as it was a similar strike in Chile that eventually brought down the Pinochet’s regime.
Our people should unite their sporadic struggle and end this regime at this opportune time, as it faces the wrath of Trump’s administration and the Israelis are confronting it on the military front too.
Dr. Mehran Barati:
Most Iranian economists and agricultural experts have left Iran and those remaining are simply ignored by the regime, as it does not trust the educated people.
The crucial managerial positions for running the country’s affairs have been given to people with little or no knowledge of the industry that they are supposed to run. This situation is worst in the agriculture sector. Our framers grow more produce that need more water but are less basic foodstuff, and there is less water for the vital crops.
In this regime the only sign of a good manager is one who is obedient to its vile ideology and that is the one single source of all of Iran’s calamities.
Jamshid Chalangi:
Iran’s ethnic people in Azerbaijan and Khuzestan seem to be under immense economic and social pressures.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
I spoke to Kak Abdullah Mohtadi of the Komola Party of Kurdistan of Iran today and asked him if he is a separatist. He quite rightly said that the Iranian Kurds are the most unifying people of Iran as they are fighting against a regime whose policies are threatening the existence of Iran as a united country.
This regime has traumatized our Arab, Kurdish, Baluchi, Azeri and Turkmen peoples because it does not have any nationalist feeling and does not even believe in a nation by the name of the Iranians. All it is interested in is to hypocritically claim that it is here to welcome the arrival of the Missing Imam to this world. Its leader, Khamenei, has even said he has a regular weekly meeting with the Missing Imam!!
Dr. Mehran Barati:
Our Kurdish and Azeri people are among the oldest Persians and if any one owns this land on the basis of having preserved it over many centuries it should be them.
We do not have any “ethnic minorities” in Iran and the term is a divisive word that seeks to damage the unity of the Iranian people. We are all Iranians no matter if we come from Baluchestan or Kurdistan. Our identity is Iranian citizens and we must secure human and civil rights for every Iranian who lives within the borders of our ancient country, regardless of their geographical position within this land.
