Behind the Headlines/October 29

Jamshid Chalangi:
In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will look at the latest news of Iran and the Middle East, plus how the Iranian regime has begun to crack down on the teachers movement as we their union leader Hashem Khastar has been forced to stay in a hospital for mental patients and injected with a drug.

Also, will the change of some ministers in Rouhani government change anything for the Iranian people and their economic woes?

And despite the regime’s attempts to stop people from gathering around the tomb of Cyrus the Great on his national day, thousands of people from across the country have been converging in Pasragard.

In the years before the Islamic revolution, the area around the tomb of Cyrus the Great was used to hold celebrations and concerts attended by foreign dignitaries to pay tribute to his legacy of respect for human rights and freedoms.

But under the current regime in Iran all roads leading to his resting place areblocked by security forces to deny people fro gathering around it and pay their respect to this symbol of Iranian identity and cultural values.

Still worse, the Islamic regime had tried unsuccessfully to bulldoze the Persepolis immediately after coming to power and this was well expected from a regime whose leader ayatollah Khomeini had said that he holds no sense of love for the country of Iran at all.