A Window to the Fatherland – Tuesday 20 August 2019
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:
In tonight’s program our senior foreign correspondent Mohammad Reza Shaheed will give us some news about the meeting between Presidents Putin and Macron in the south of France.
Mohammad Reza Shaheed:
They are meeting in Macron’s personal villa on the southern coast of France and enjoying the sun while discussing their relationship and politics.
I think Macron is also trying the mend the US-Russia somehow broken relations. While their meeting lasted only a few hours it is believed they also discussed the possibility of inviting Rouhani to the summit of the seven world leaders.
However, the US has already rejected this idea as they think it would boost both Khamenei’s and Rouhani’s position and will bring about no substantial change as far as Iran’s policies are concerned.
Russia has also been under pressure by France to come clean of its role in the Ukraine crisis and when Boris Johnson comes to France on Thursday the pressure on the Russian president will grow even more.
Putin had never liked Macron’s election but he has gradually adopted to his style of politics.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
Merkel’s role in the politics of Europe towards Russians is also important and now France seems to have Germany’s support behind him to pursue his European ambitions.
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