I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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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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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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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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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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 Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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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 solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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