They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
AKBAR GANJI
We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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