We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
We continue the program with a discussion with our special guest Dr. Reza Hossein Bor who would share his views with us about the recent Mujaheddin gathering in Paris as well as our own Washington Conference and the Cologne City Seminar of the representatives of Iran’s ethnic peoples.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
What is your view of the Mujaheddin’s gathering?
Dr. Reza Hossein Bor:
The show of strength will only have any credit if it is used in a just way and for a just cause. When you gather people around to show your strength at the cost of ignoring anyone else who might not agree with your ideas but you expect them to obey your position, then that reminds you of the authoritarian systems of the former Soviet Union and North Korea and the present Islamic republic regime in Iran.
It would have been much better if people who gathered in the Mujaheddin event had gone there voluntarily otherwise the whole thing looked like a staged show of power.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
The Mujaheddin do not want any partners for themselves and the day that their leader Masoud Rajavi fled Iran I wrote anarticle and said that gradually all those people who supported him would abandon him because the Mujaheddin do not want to be allied to any other opposition group.
After our Washington Conference you also attended the Cologne City Summit. What do you make of these events?
Dr. Reza Hossein Bor:
I am currently working on a new interpretation of what a country means because before anything else one must get to understand a country. We have this confused understanding of our own country and what it is.
Just look at the map of the Iran of today and you will see the Azeris, the Baluchis, the Kurds, the Lores and the Turkmens and then they are divided between the Shias and the Sunnis.
In our meeting in Cologne the representatives of all these Iranians had taken part and these are the people who have been struggling against the regime for the last 40 years.
We do not have any intention of excluding the Mujaheddin but if they look at this map and the mosaic of the Iranian peoples they should ask themselves where do they fit in it?
This is the true geo-political map of Iran and if the Mujaheddin wish to be part of it then they must come to some kind of terms with other opposition groups and recognize their existence but if they wish to go it along by themselves they will fail.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
As a democratic and free media we see it as ourresponsibility to report on all such events and gatherings of Iranian opposition groups but when you look around not that many media outlets outside Iran ever take the effort of reporting on these seminars and conferences.
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