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:
These are very sad and bitter days in the life of the Iranian people.
Over the past few days, the desperate and despoticIranian regime has increased the tempo of its murderous attacks against Iranian Kurdish positions in Iraqi Kurdistan. Shelling began Sept. 6, followed by amissile strike Sept. 8. So far, as many as 15 people from the top ranks of the leadership of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan have been killed and 50 more badly wounded.
Over the weekend, the regime also executed three heroic Iranian Kurdish prisoners who had been jailed for many years. Also, four Iranian Kurds who had been kidnapped were recently found decapitated in Iraq near the Iranian border.
And in the Iraqi city of Basra at the same time, local residents have set the regime’s consulate building on fire which was reminiscent of the arson attacks on the US, British and Saudi Embassies in Iran.
Raging Iraqi protestors have also burnt the flag of the Islamic republic and trampled on it while filming their action.
The regime has pent billions of dollars in Iraq by building golden domes for the Shia Imams in Karbala and Samarra, while at the same time refusing to spend any money to provide drinking water for the Iranian people.
My comments are aimed at those Iranians who wish to travel to these cities during the month of Muharram to think twice before spending their monies on such trips whiletheir fellow Iranians are suffering from poverty and hunger that this anti-Iranian and tyrannical regime has created for our nation.
Many of the people who accompanied Khomeini from exile back to Iran, like the Basij commander Naghdi, the Larijani brothers and ayatollah Shahroudi are not Iranian at all and are in fact the sworn enemies of Iran and the Iranians.
We continue the program with playing a video clip of the speech by Ramin Hossein Panahi, one of the executed Kurds, and then talking to our senior correspondent Mohammad Reza Shaheed and ask his comments about the latest news of Iran.
Mohammad Reza Shaheed:
I am thinking that if Khamenei really believes in the hereafter and the judgmentday, when he dies all these executed people by his regime will face him andwould bring him to justice.
Many exiled Iranians yesterday gathered outside the Islamic republic regime’s embassy in Paris to protest against these executions.
Sadly in another development some of the people who attended the memorial service for the late slain Dr. Bakhtiar in Paris have claimed that the cost of the service had been paid by Saudi Arabia to his surviving son, which is a shameful claim as Patrick Bakhtiar lives in a hostel and is a true patriot and would neverhumiliate himself or the memory of his father with such demands.
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