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Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program our guests, economist Jamshid Assadi and environmentalist Djalal Idjadi will be sharing with us their expert opinions about the following topics:
The rise and rise of the value of US dollar against Iran’s currency, despite all attempts by the government to stop it;
The worsening of water shortage in Iran as the regime’s crack down on environmentalists continues.
Before all that we will watch a video clip of the Malbakhtegan (people who have lost their savings through bogus banks and credit companies) vainly protesting outside the Iranian parliament building.
Djalal Idjadi:
The regime still continues to blame the Pahlavi regime for all the ills of the country forty years after replacing it, which is quite mind-boggling.
Isa Kalantari, currently the man responsible to sort out Iran’s environmental problems is himself the same person who closed down the country’s only environmental university and yet hypocritically claims that the current water shortage in Iran stems from the building of Iran’s first steel factories in Isfahan and Ahvaz under the Shah.
He lacks the very basic scientific qualifications to be in the position that he is in, because unlike his deceitful argument during the former regime of Iran had successfully managed to turn Iran’s traditional agricultural methods into an industrial one, which meant less water wastage.
We now have a major dispute with our neighboring country of Afghanistan about the common use of the waters of Helmand River which has in turn affected our economic and political relations with Afghanistan, where as this had never been an issue before this regime came to power in Iran.
Jamshid Assadi
The main reason for the rise of the value of US dollar and the free fall of Iranian currency lies in the mismanagement of our economy.
The Iranian people have simply lost any trust that they may have had in the government to sort out the country’s economic mess and are acting to save whatever saving that they have by converting it into US dollar.
In addition, the concerns about the future of the nuclear deal is affecting Iran’s economy as people fear things will get even worse if the US leaves this deal and imposes further sanctions on Iran.
Jamshid Chalangi:
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