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.
AKBAR GANJIThe Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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 am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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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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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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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 entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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