The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
AKBAR GANJIThe Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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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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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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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They obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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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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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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