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 wrote this particular poem when I was watching a film in which a mother dies at the time of giving birth to her baby and her family agrees to donate her heart to a patient who is waiting for a transplant.
The patient is a Japanese man and the baby does not accept any parental care from anyone until she hears the heart beat of her deceased mother when the Japanese man cuddles her.
It was a very moving film and makes a great statement about love and humanity, values that have almost disappeared form our fatherland under the current tyrannical regime.
Once upon a time we had a wonderful and beautiful country from the waters of the Caspian Sea to the shores of the Persian Gulf, but every Greenland in Iran has weathered and every lake has evaporated and every forest has dried up in Iran since this regime came to power.
My dear late close friend the artists and thinker Inanlou had gone on a tour of Iran and on his return told me that the ruling regime has deliberately destroyed Iran and among all its leadership you could hardly find a handful of people who cared for our fatherland.
He said the regime’s officials had cut down millions trees and destroyed vast areas of our forests to sell the logs to the Russians.
When the Mongols invaded Iran and pillaged our resources and massacred out people centuries ago, at the end they surrendered to the Iranian culture. But we cannot see even one individual among the officials of this regime to look or sound or act as a proper Iranian patriot who cares for our ancient land.
They are all thieves and follow their master thieve Khamenei in amassing money in their foreign bank accounts and buying villas in the best locations in the world and are driven in bullet proof limos and Benz, while millions of Iranians live under poverty line.
In the second part of the program we will report on the continued strike by Iran’s truck drivers and how every Iranian must be proud of their heroic action and support them.
We will also look at the latest gathering of Iranian opposition groups and speak to the young artist Mitra Jashni who supports the newly established Farashgard opposition group.
Mitra Jashni:
My social and political activities began before I left Iran and went to South America.
With my arrival in Europe my activities have become more organized and I aim to create a communication channel with Iranian people inside the country, particularly among the artistic communities.
I have noticed that there is a lack of information among the Iranian diaspora about the artistic activities of our fellow Iranians inside the country and I would like to see that we will find a common language among ourselves as part of our political activities.
I have chosen to join Farashgard for this purpose.
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