Behind the Headlines/October 2

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:

What causes the rapid fluctuations in Iran’s foreign exchange markets?

Is the Islamic regime behind the hoarding of foreign currencies?

What lies behind the regime’s missile attacks on Syrian targets?

France seizes regime’s assets in response to its terrorist plots.

And a report form Iran’s Kurdish towns and the state of human rights in them.

Our guest tonight to discuss these topics is Mr. Ardavan Roozbeh.

Jamshid Chalangi:

Autumn is here and the falling leaves make one feel so close to nature and the beautiful world.

Ardavan Roozbeh:

That is true. I was born in October and in a part of Iran that has four completeseasons. May be that is why I chose to live in this part of US which is very similar to where I come from.

Jamshid Chalangi:

Iran is like a rainbow of different religious and ethnic peoples but nowadays wehear some people claim to be representing our peoples while their motives are political and have nothing to do with the unity of our nation of Iran. Aren’t they more separatists than being Iranian nationalists?

Ardavan Roozbeh:

The truth is that when something happens in our country we act irrationally and do things without thinking about their consequences.

There is a specific term for nationality and it is a combination of the land and culture within which one is born. We are also concern about the suffering of our Baluch and Ahvazi children but we are all Iranians, no matter if we areKurds, Azeris, Turks, Baluchis or Lores.

We do not have such thing as Fars people in Iran and this is a ploy by the adversaries of Iran to disunite us.

We can fight back the repression of the ruling regime in Iran by unity of our various ethnic peoples.

The truth is that the economic and social realities of our country indicate that the Islamic revolution has failed and the Iranian people are reflecting on this and looking for a way to build their future and in this all Iranians of different religions and ethnic background have a share.