It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
AKBAR GANJIIt began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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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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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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 a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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