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:

We continue tonight’s program with watching a video clip in which the civil rights activist Heshmatullah Tabarzadi analyses Khamenei’s comments of yesterday about a wide-ranging issues that his tyrannical regime is facing.

Heshmatullah Tabarzadi:

Khamenei is an absolute dictator with absolute power. He says just because Imam Khomeini had forbidden any negotiations with America, he too forbids it.

The Rouhani government has no guts to oppose Khamenei’s ruling over this issue any way. But the question is what about the Iranian people? What about their right to determine their own future and who they wish to negotiate with?

Who is Khamenei to decide on behalf of 85 million Iranians and regard them all as minors who in his view “cannot decide for themselves”? Who has given him this right? The Iranian people have not given it to him.

Khamenei does not even answer for his errors of judgment and does not seem to be accountable to anyone. And if someone dares question his authority and remind him of his mistakes, they will face prison and torture. He does not have any right whatsoever to decide on behalf of our people because he does not represent their aspirations.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

In recent days an audio file that purports to be a recording message of Khamenei ordering a harsh response and crack down on Iranian protestors has gone viral on social media.

It may not be a genuine audio file of Khamenei’s speech, but it does not alter the fact that he has always been directly behind the bloody repression of Iranian demonstrators that have resulted in the brutal murder of hundreds of our fellow Iranians.

If the revolution had not happened he would have remained a simple and even a decent mullah, but he is now the symbol all ills of Iran and a demon who will not relinquish power even if it means the total destruction of Iran.

Today is the birthday of the late legendary Iranian film director Ali Hatami, as well as the birthday of Jaffar Panahi, another Iranian great director.

We will continue the program with an update of news and commentaries about the scandalous and disgraceful deal between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russiaand Turkmenistan signed on the status of the Caspian Sea, which has been disputed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and rendered obsolete all previous agreements between Tehran and Moscow.

We believe and clearly say that it is tantamount to an act of treason by Hassan Rouhani and his accomplice Mohammad Javad Zarif to sign this disgraceful agreement and the nation of Iran will not forgive them for it.

Iran and the republic of Azerbaijan have the same length of coastal border with the Caspian Sea but they have more than 20 percent of the share of the resources rights and Iran that should have had its historical right of 50 percent has only got 11 percent in the deal.

This is an obvious treason by the Islamic republic regime to secure the agreement of Putin’s Russian to support Khamenei’s son Mujtaba to succeed him after his demise. An idea that will not see the light of the day as the Iranian people’s struggle is to end this tyrannical regime.

We have now been informed that the human rights activist Narges Mohammadi who is in jail has been sent to hospital for a gallbladder operation and the doctors have found a tumor in her stomach.

Also, the jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been taken ill in her prison cell. We wish both of these heroines all the very best.

The Islamic republic regime must know that in the eyes of the Iranian people these two ladies and Abdulfattah Soltani and Heshmat Tabarzadi are the symbols of our nation’s struggle for freedom and there will come a day that the regime will face justice.