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In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will look at the continuation of the workers strike at Haft Tapeh Sugar Factory and Ahwaz Steel Plant;
The possibility of Zarif’s impeachment after he revealed that billions of dollars of money laundering takes place in Iran each year;
Another member of Rouhani’s cabinet admits the presence of money laundering in Iran;
The economic ties between Iran and Iraq after the US sanctions are imposed on Iran;
New discoveries in cancer treatment in UK;
A European bank is fined by US for dealing with Iran.
Jamshid Chalangi:
The workers at the Ahwaz Steel Plant have been threatened by the regime’s security forces and have arrested several of them while picketing outside the plant.
Mohsen Rezaie has once again attacked the Rouhani government by saying if he and his cabinet had acted according to Khamenei’s orders and instruction in economic matters the country would not have been in the dire situation as it is now.
In the meantime, Issa Kalantari, the environment minister has said that the drying up of Uromiyeh lake threatens the lives of more than 5 million people. He speaks in a language as though he has had no responsibility in avoiding this situation to arrive.
We speak to a retired army officer in Tehran who says the national army has always been a target for the regime’s purges ad reveals who and why was behind the destruction of Iran’s Imperial Army to pave the way for the Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1981.
