You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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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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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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