Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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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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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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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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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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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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