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In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:
Water shortage crisis grips the southern province of Khuzestan as currency crisis continues in the capital city of Tehran;
What are the consequences of Iran’s regional policy?
Trump and Putin are to meet next month in Finland.
Or guests tonight are Alireza Nourizadeh and Mehdi Djalali Tehrani.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
When Rouhani’s Environment Minister Mrs. Ebtekar travelled to Khuzestan recently a local women showed her a bottle of muddy water and told Ebtekar that this is the kind of water that people in the area are drinking.
The water crisis in Iran is yet another example of this regime’s incompetence. The regime’s officials have built hundreds of unnecessary and unlawful dams to serve their own farming business or getting paid for them in corrupt deals and this has resulted in the water resources become scarce and salty.
Jamshid Chalangi:
The clergy in Iran has for centuries been mourning the thirst of the third Imam of the Shias due to lack of water but has remained silent about millions of our people not having water to drink.
Mehdi Djalali Tehrani:
The Iranian people’s view of the clergy has completely changed and they have no social or political credibility in Iran any more.
Nowhere in the world you will see such a mistrust of a nation towards those who rule over them by force and this is the grounds for the eventual collapse of the regime.
Iranian people know how the top officials of the regime have stolen billions of dollars of their money and squandered billions more for their adventurist policy in the region.
Iran’s problems are not just water shortage. They also include rampant corruption, and the mafia-type gangs who control the farming lands of the oil rich province of Khuzestan.
The regime has secretly constructed massive pipelines that import quality drinking and fresh water to Iraq but our people have now discovered it and are trying to use the water for themselves.
Jamshid Chalangi:
Khamenei has threatened protestors with harsh punishment.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
He is the same Khamenei as he used to be before the revolution, when Iran’s middle classes had a comfortable and prosperous life and our working classes had just begun to benefit from the social and economic reforms.
Khamenei was mainly under the control of Hashemi Rafsanjani during his first four years as the supreme leader. But after that period he began to build his own empire of crime by bringing murderers and gangsters into his orbit of leadership.
The rift among the regime’s factions in face of the serious challenges to its survival is for real and Rouhani has been threatened with impeachment. For now Khamenei is still thinking about this issue and once he shows the green light his stooges in the Majles will get on with it.
