The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
AKBAR GANJIThe U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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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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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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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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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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