Behind the Headlines – Monday 2 September 2019
Jamshid Chalangi:
Today we will look at the latest news of Iran and the Middle East region.
In US today is the Labour Day and we all know that the international workers day actually began in America.
We will compare the plight of Iranian workers withthose of other countries of the world while a group of Iranian workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Refinery are still in jail for demanding their overdue salaries.
We will find out what has happened to the Iranian working class since the revolution as well as looking into the latest cases of human rights violations against the citizens of the country.
Journalist Mrs Noushin Jaffari is the latest victim for supporting the open letter of the 14 civil rights activists calling forKhamenei’s resignation.
Our guest tonight to discuss these issues with him is Mr Hamid Reza Amini (aka Ario Barzan), who has spent some time in the regime’s prison.
Hamid Reza Amini:
I had two accounts in Facebook and Telegram and was posting comments and news under my pseudonym Ario Barzan and used to work with Mr Shahram Homayoun’s satellite TV station.
I was arrested together with my seven months old child and we were kept in a detention centre for a week. Sadly when Mr Homayoun found out about my arrest he abandoned me.
I later joined the Green Movement and continued with my social media activities but as I already had a file with the security service I began working under another pseudonym but was once again arrested.
The Basij militias took me to their base but the protesters attacked the van and rescued me and two other people and set thepolice van on fire.
Later I began to work with the exiled union leader Mr Osanlou.
Jamshid Chalangi:
We must note that when a member of our political and opposition groups is jailed and later released these groups would be very careful about how they continue working with them again.
Hamid Reza Amini:
In those days the regime was not in a position to identify and arrest the activists so quickly.
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