But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
AKBAR GANJIRevolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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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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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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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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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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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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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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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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