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Behind the Headlines/March 13

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program we will discuss the following topics;

What type of government or system is the Islamic republic regime in comparison with other kinds of states and political establishments?

What has Rouhani’s achieved from much publicised official trip to Iraq?

What is the Russian foreign policy for the Middle East region?

Our guest to discuss these issues with him is the prominent Iranian journalist Amir Taheri.

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Behind the Headlines/March 8

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program;

On the International Women’s Day we mark the occasion by looking at the plight of Iranian women under the Islamic republic regime;

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Behind the Headlines/March 5

In tonight’s program from our London studios we will look at the social and economic plights of Iranian people forty years after the Islamic revolution.

We will try to find out what kind of country the Islamic republic regime took over forty years ago and how does it look like now.

And planning for the future of Iran, a new organization by the name of Qoqnous has now been launched in Washington, which intends to rebuild Iran from the ashes of the present country under the rule of the clerical regime.
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Behind the Headlines/March 4

In tonight’s program we will look at the comments of Abdulkarim Soroush, one of the main figures behind the “Cultural Revolution” in Iran after the rise of the Islamic republic regime.

An “Islamic philosopher and thinker” who had studied chemistry in a Western university has come up with some description of the ayatollah Khomeini and his place in Iran’s history, which has caused a barrage of response and his condemnation by those who love Iran, and its history.

Soroush has described ayatollah Khomeini as the “most educated Iranian leader since the time of the Persian Empire 3000 years ago”, while the ayatollah did not even know the Arabic language after having lived in Iraq for nearly two decades.

We ask our guests Mohammad Nourizad and Hassan Etemadi what lies behind Soroush’s sudden and controversial comments.
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