Broadcast 28 February by Satellite on PARS TV (Los Angeles):

Excerpts from the Behrouz Souresrafil Program:

America going and talking with the Islamic Republic about Iraq, about the nuclear case, about the dearly departed ideal of human rights, about trade or something else is not something we Iranians ought to regret.

In truth I pray to God that America's embassy in Tehran will be reopened to this American government, that its diplomats will go there and that friendly diplomatic relations will resume, because those very relations will turn the Islamic Republic upside down.

Had it had not been for Mr. Jimmy Carter's plan in America to overthrow the shah's regime or if they had closed its doors or in any case if that center for revolutionary plots, which was right there in the American Embassy in Tehran, had been stopped, perhaps we would not be in this situation today.

What one ought to regret is that this happened just when sending warships to the Persian Gulf, with hidden and public economic sanctions, in other words blocking the Islamic Republic's access to loans, credit, money and international free trade, were beginning to have their effects, had created unhappiness among the people of Iran as well, had made the regime itself realize that it could not continue this gamble at low risk forever, and just when it appeared that with just a little more pressure it would have been possible to prepare a draft for further economic sanctions, especially since the other nations, as the newspaper Le Monde wrote yesterday (equivalent to our today), that in the London talks on Tuesday the members of the UN Security Council and Germany (the 5+1 group) had become much, much more flexible.

The Islamic Republic could have been put under so much pressure by the international community that it would not have stopped uranium enrichment, it would have brought civilization back to the nation of Iran, it would have brought human dignity back to the Iranian and it would have reduced the spiritual and psychological pressure on the nation of Iran, and it would have reduced the economic pressure and malfunctions as well. This would have returned lost prestige to the nation of Iran, or in other words the essence of the government would have changed.

Yet we suddenly see that voices of another kind are being heard and there is talk of friendship, reconciliation and so forth. This shows, as I have just said, that just as is natural in the world, 70 to 80 percent of what happens is hidden and behind the scenes, things we know nothing about. This 20 percent that we see printed in the newspapers, magazines and broadcast on American and international television and radio is not enough for a person to be able truly to understand what is happening behind the scenes. [splice]

What I regret is that the Islamic Republic of Iran is now using these talks against the Iranian nation! If you read these newspapers in the Islamic Republic these days you will see that they are talking constantly about defeating America, saying that America has been forced to come and talk with them and that they have won!

This is the psychological warfare at which the Islamic Republic and actually the preachers have become masters, especially with the support of the Tudeh and using the propaganda tactics of the communists.

Unfortunately America's political system, America's domestic political system, actually prevents victory in any psychological war. When the American government is disgraced so much by the American Congress--a government that was voted in by a majority of the American people and is still the trustee of the American people for another two years--when the American army is fighting and the Islamic Republic is killing American soldiers, and when the American Congress is humiliating the American army this way with these debates and this talk, how can you expect this government to wage psychological warfare against this highly effective system the Islamic Republic has?

This is in a country where the CIA is prepared at any moment to take action if asked by the American government, secretly, and the essence of the CIA ought to be to protect American secrets. Yet two or three analysts are exposed through the publication of their activities in the newspapers and the government is disgraced, creating political problems, judicial problems, or both.