The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
AKBAR GANJIThe Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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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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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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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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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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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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