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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program, with our guests Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh and Hassan Shariatmadri will be discussing the topics of the increasing opposition to the theory of the rule of clergy or Velayateh Faghih in Iran among the country’s religious circles, as well Iran’s silence in the face of Netanyahu’s revelations of the regime’s secret nuclear activities.
But before that we will watch a video clip from an Iranian girl and later in the program we will pay tribute to the late songwriter and musician Nasser Cheshmazar who sadly passed away today.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
Cheshmazar was a close friend of mine and we had spent many days and nights working together. He had also written a new and moving national anthem for Iran while he lived in the US but he decided to go back to Iran. We offer our sincere condolences to his family, especially to his artist daughter. May he rest in peace.
Jamshid Chalangi:
The regime has now banned the messaging app of Telegram. What does it fear from?
Hassan Shariatmadari:
I believe the regime’s leadership has become a new Don Quixote in trying to bring back the past to the present. You cannot wage a war against the new technology of communications in this day and age. Our young people would not buy this regime’s policies and are sick and tired of all these social restrictions on them.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
Khomeini himself was the biggest charlatan of the regime’s leaders. All his pledges of respecting individual freedoms for the Iranians, while he was in exile, proved fake and sheer lies and deception when he returned to Iran. His bloody onslaught on the press, journalists had gone unabated for a decade until when Khatami was elected as president, who then relaxed the draconian measures slightly.
Many journalists and civil rights activists were freed under his administration but again under Ahmadinejad things went back to the Khomeini’s dark days.
Nowadays the regime has full control over the Radio and Television stations and the press lives under censorship and only publishes the pro-regime stories. Now they have started to crack down on the messaging apps and the social media.
Ali Khamenei does not realize that the world knows him and his regime very well. They claim that they will annihilate Israel by blowing three whistles but the Israelis blow up the regime’s military bases in Syria with their missiles and kill more than twenty members of their militias and then Netanyahu reveals their most secret nuclear activities and all along the regime remains silent. This is a bankrupted regime that whatever it does ends in another disgrace and failure.
Hassan Shariatmadari:
The religious establishment in Iran is the result of the historical development of a traditional section of our society whose financial survival had been dependent on the wider society’s economic system.
However, since coming to power after the Islamic revolution, the religious establishment has become corrupt and divided on the basis of its involvement with politics. Now it has noticed that at the end of the day the religious establishment has lost its respect in the eyes of the nation and faces immense hatred from the public. The ‘wiser’ parts of the clerical establishment fears that this public anger will not distinguish them from their corrupt peers once the people rise up against them and are trying to dissociate themselves from the ruling clergy in the event of the collapse of the regime.
Some of them are demanding protection for themselves and others are trying to save the regime. Bottom line is that the Iranian people want a complete separation of religion from state and an end to this mafia-type regime.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
In the past the majority of those who studied at Iran’s theological schools were the children of farmers or the existing mullahs. However, things have changed now and people like Mr Kadivar who attended these colleges do study physics and we have clergies who write film reviews as well. Gone are the days of the old traditional grand ayatollahs and the younger and more educated theologians oppose the status quo and are calling for the abolishment of the medieval theory of the rule of supreme religious leader.
Hassan Shariatmadari:
We hear that many of such people are abandoning their support for the regime. One of the reasons for this is financial and the other is the generational gap, while others regret for having helped establish this regime by supporting it.
Jamshid Chalangi:
In this second part of the program we will watch the argument of an Iranian lady with one of the agents of the regime outside Iran.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
This lady is an Iranian Arab political activist who had been assaulted by one of the mercenaries of the regime who should have been arrested and brought to justice.
Some of the formerly left-wing activists who have turned as the stooges of the regime nowadays support the Islamic republic in a way that one suspects they may be at the service of the foreign intelligence agencies. The same type who murdered the artist Farokhzad and the Forouhars.
Hassan Shariatmadari:
The Russians are the biggest lobby of the Iranian regime on the international scene. Likewise, the leaders of the regime are the by-products of Putinism and no wonder Khamenei has asked his followers to align with the Russians in every political decision-making. Iran has now become a satellite state of the Russian military conglomerates.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
The North Korean leader has acted wisely to end his people’s misery by giving up his nuclear arsenals but Khamenei refuses to do so. The Russians are abusing Iran and the Iranians through their control of the Islamic republic’s leadership. They are using our military bases while they refuse to protect the regime’s forces in Syria and turn them as cannon fodders under the Israelis fire power.
