And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
AKBAR GANJIKhomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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