Behind the Headlines

Behind the Headlines – Wednesday 4 September 2019

Jamshid Chalangi:

Tonight we will look at how the Iranian regime’s nuclear program has taken the country to the brink of economic collapse to the point that it is now asking for a 15 billion dollars of credit line from Western countries during Javad Zarif’s recent visit to France.

However, the loan has been on the condition that the US government agrees with it and that Iran stops any further breach of its commitments of the nuclear deal.

Tonight our journalist/writer colleague Mr Amir Taheri will share his expert views with us on these subjects.

We begin by reporting on the news of the death of a young Iranian inprison under torture in the province of Fars.

Mr Amir Taheri:

This sad incident is in line with what we have seen all these last 40 years from the regime in Tehran, which is a policy of crackdown on any dissent and the opposition groups or anyone who has a different opinion other than the regime’s rulers.

I was speaking at a gathering of the Somali community in London yesterday who seem to have a similar problem that we Iranians have which is facing a repressive regime in our countries.

While more than 5 million Somali people have left their country, 8 million Iranians have fled Iran and are scattered around the world.

This is because the regime in Iran does not have any plans to manage the affairs of the nation at home and does not conform to any international norms abroad.

The rulers in Iran feel free to do anything they want and do not even respect the laws that they have passed themselves and the nation has to pay a price for their misdeeds.

And when the Iranian people demand their rights and ask the regime to be accountable for its actions they are supressed in reply.

This regime is incapable of providing a decent and peaceful life for the Iranian people and the chaos that we see in every aspect of life in the country is the result of its sheer incompetence.