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 begin today’s program with the sad news of passing away of Parviz Bahram, Iran’s best known voiceover artist.
The man behind the voiceover of Hollywood’s greatest films, like Spartacus and Ben-Hur, Parviz died last night at the age of 84 after having fought a long illness. We offer our condolences to his family and friends.
We are going through very critical and indeed strange times at the moment.
President Trump has made a very unusual statement by saying that the US does not want a war with Iran and even this existing regime in Iran can make the country great!
I am not going to be diplomatic here and would honestly tell Mr Trump that it is a correct policy for the US not to have a war with Iran and we support it. But he must not drop the idea of helping the Iranians to remove this regime from power.
This regime will never ever correct or reform itself. It will never act to prosper our country nor make our people happy.
We say this very clearly to the US policy makers, as we know the State Department and the CIA analysts on Iran constantly monitor the contents of our programs.
We have no censorship in our TV channel but will not allow irresponsible comments on it.
The best chance that this regime ever had to reform itself was during the time of Mohammad Khatami. He wanted to reform a despotic regime but he did not haveenough guts.
During his administration a relative democracy returned to Iran and under his culture minister Ataullah Mohajerani many “forbidden books” were published. We appreciate Mohajerani’s then works but reject his current political stance when he praises Khamenei.
We even had the opportunity to ring from abroad and talk to dissidents like Akbar Ganji and supported Khatami’s foreign policy of building relations with Saudi Arabia.
But Khatami’s reforms failed because the regime he was trying to change is fundamentally not reformable.
So we ask President Trump, how could we leave the destiny of 80 million Iranians into the hands of this regime and wish it could make our country great?!
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