In tonight’s edition of Behind the Headlines, our guests, political activist Dr. Sadegh Zibakalam, filmmaker and political dissident Mohammad Nourizad and journalist and political commentator Navid Jamshidi will be sharing with us their views about the following topics of discussions:
Why has Iran retreaded from its previous threats regarding the possibility of US withdrawal from the nuclear deal?
What has been the financial and political cost for the Iranian people with the Iranian regime pursuing its nuclear program?
Would the collapse of the regime result in disintegration of Iran as a country, as some people suggest?
Mohammad Nourizad:
I have invented the term “Mullah-Centrifuge”. It is almost impossible to give a task to a mullah and expect him to do it properly. They are only experts in the fields of how to wash your body after discharging yourself. Ask them to do any useful job and they will end up in a mess.
If you follow the thread of all the corruption and thefts in Iran, you will end up to a mullah who is in turn connected to the household of the supreme leader. The mullahs are only good in corrupting matters.
In the matter of the nuclear program they have done exactly the same and now that they have completely failed Mr Khamenei is looking for a scapegoat.
We have spent millions upon millions of dollars on the nuclear program and they are now buried under tons of hard concrete. I am not an enemy of the mullahs, but they are the most timid people and despite all his hallow slogans, Ali Khamenei is just a great coward.
Dr. Sadegh Zibakalam:
The experience of the last forty years clearly shows that the elite and journalists and even the Majles deputies have no role within this system of governance and the regime is the absolute arbiter about all the affairs of Iran and ending up with messing all of them.
Just look at the nuclear program. We went right into the middle of the desert and dug the ground for 80 meters deep and built the Fordo nuclear site and spent billions of dollars to get it going but now its has been turned into a storage! If it was not needed then why on earth did you build it in the first place?
The main problem in Iran is that the regime of the Islamic republic is not accountable to anyone. We have barely survived the previous sanctions and now a whole new range of them is to be imposed on us.
Navid Jamshidi:
The lack of freedom of press in Iran means that there is never any real data or information about what the cost of the regime’s nuclear program has truly been.
The regime has argued that it wanted the nuclear energy for economic progress. But they have neglected all other sectors of Iran’s economy because their true intention has been to secure the survival of the regime and threaten others with nuclear capability.
The main objective of this regime is to export its violent revolution and destabilize other countries because they have no affection for a country called Iran and the lives and safety of its Iranian citizens. This is an ideological regime with no nationalist feelings and does not belong to any particular nation. It has been after a nuclear bomb to defend itself from a possible US attack, not so much to protect Iran and the Iranians, but to survive with its vile ideology.
This is a regime that has suppressed our people for forty continuous years and carried out all its destructive domestic and foreign policies at the cost of our people.
Jamshid Chalangi:
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