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:
Yesterday we talked about the 20th anniversary of the student uprising in Iran which began with anti-regime rallies in Tehran University and then spread across other academic centers, during which one student was killed by the regime’s thugs and hundreds injured and arrested.
We listened to Rouhani’s comments about this anniversary and today we will listen to what Khamenei has said and find out why the regime closed down Iran’s universities for more than two years to carry out its purges of dissident academics and students.
In the history of Iran’s student movement one name will always stand out and that is Abdullah Momeni who never surrendered to regime’s pressure in prison to repent and denounce his beliefs.
Throughout the life of this regime, all its leaders have approved the repression of our students and their movement for democracy and human rights, while they havepromoted the criminals like judge Saeed Mortazavi for cracking down on them.
Tonight our guest Dr Sadigh Yazdchi will share his views with us about the regime’s never ending hostility towards our heroic students.
Dr Sadigh Yazdchi:
As far as my generation is concerned, we have not witnessed the Nazi crimes but historical documents show how their ideological beliefs led them commit so many crimes against humanity.
Today also some aspects of their ideological beliefs among the rulers of our country have caused many calamities in Iran.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
The ideology that you are referring to in Iran is a complicated mixture of beliefs and superstitions which has taken our country back to the middle ages and I do not know why the Iranian people do not rise up against it.
Dr Sadigh Yazdchi:
Until such a time that we could keep our ideological beliefs separate from state affairs and act on the base of rationale, our backward movement will continue. We must try to clear the minds of our people from superstitions with cultural works and through education.
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