A Window to the Fatherland

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:

I had written this poem for the Lebanese poet Mahmoud Darwish whose poetry reflected the Palestinian people’s sufferings as well as hopes and happiness. Today is the anniversary of Darwish’s death, which also coincides with the anniversary of the death of Fereydoun Rahnama, the legendary Iranian TV and cinema star.

Tonight we will watch two video clips dedicated to the memory of these two great human beings.

Later we will look at the impeachment of the Works and Social Security Minister, Ali Rabiei. He served as deputy to the Intelligence Minister Reyshahri, but always kept his honour and never involved himself in the corruption of the regime’s top leadership.

During the administration of Khatami he served as a member of the National Security Council and was one of the few officials who to some extent always supported the students’ movement and their demands, using the pseudonym of Ebad.

However, with the current socio-economic crisisgripping the country, the despot Ali Khamenei was looking for some scapegoats and found no one better than Rabiei as he has still remained loyal to Khatami.

In an indirect reference to this vendetta by Khamenei, the Majles deputy Mahmood Sadeghi has said that the impeachment of Rabiei has made him wonder if the MPs are truly representatives of the Iranian people!

Mahmood Sadeghi has also reacted to the decision of the Iraqi government to comply with the US sanctions on Iran and has reminded Baghdad that it still owes Iran $1100 billion according to the point 6 of the UN Resolution 589 ending the Iran-Iraq war.

He has criticised the Iraqi Prime Minister for choosing to take part in the US unjust sanctions on Iran, instead of paying the compensations that they owe to Iran to provide some relief to Iran’s dire economic conditions.

However, I may advise Mr Sadeghi that he should for a moment put himself in Mr Al Ebadi’s shoes and look around to see for himself how the suffering nation of Iraq has been taken hostage by Khamenei’smercenaries and the country has become divided on sectarian lines as a result of the Iranian regime’s devastating regional policies.

Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjedi, acts as the master over the Shias of Iraq led by the Khamenei’s stooge Nouri Al Maleki.

Besides, the Iraqis are paying their compensations for the invasion of Kuwait, but refusing to pay theirs to Iran precisely because of the Iranian regime’s meddling in their internal affairs.

In the second part of the program we will listen to the speech of Khamenei to the Shia pilgrims to Mecca and ask him if the millions of SunniIranians have the same human rights under his despotic regime?

His regime has spent $800m to gold plate the surface of the domes of all Shia Imams’ resting places in Iraq while our people are struggling to survive from poverty and hunger.

At the end of the program we will discuss the latest video message of Ahmadinejad in which he has called on the Rouhani government to resign to save the regime and the country.

And this is the same man whose 8 years of rule as the president turned Iran into a country where thieves and crooks plunderedbillions of dollars of Iran’s oil and gas revenue and is now portraying himself as the ‘savior of Iran’

What is happening in the Iran of today is the most sinister and darkest period of our 6000 years of recorded history and if Iran had been occupied by the army of an enemy instead of the current regime, the Iranian people would have had a better life!