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.
AKBAR GANJIRecently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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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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