But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
AKBAR GANJIRecently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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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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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 am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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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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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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Let me begin by saying not only you can’t have democracy with $75 million. You can’t even have it with $750 billion.
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