By putting this interview out with a known Islamic regime lobbyist (despite his protestations) - and thus with the full knowledge and blessing of the regime before itโs broadcast to the world -
@Channel4News are trying to tell us โhey everyone, news from inside Iran: true, they donโt like the regime but they think the way forward - despite all the massacring, executions and everything theyโve endured - is to wait a few years until the current regime reformsโ.
Which is like saying โyou know that bloke who slaughtered his family and tens of thousands more? Before stopping him, how about waiting a bit to give him time to see the error of his ways?โ
This is where the press are complicit. The vast majority of UK mainstream media outlets lean rabidly anti-Trump. To them thatโs who the real enemy is, not the murderous, repressive regime like the Islamic Republic. Which is insane.
Wittingly or unwittingly they are now pushing an Islamic regime clearly stated aim to ride out the war, to wait and stall until Trump is no longer US president, knowing full well that the next one wonโt have the courage to get rid of them once and for all. For the good of the planet. Which is utterly insane.
Speaking in Iran, academic and regime critic Sadegh Zibakalam tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that democracy cannot be imposed overnight, and that lasting reform must come gradually.
Despite being banned from teaching and facing pressure from hardliners, he says he remains hopeful about Iranโs future and can still see โlight at the end of the dark tunnel.โ