We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
AKBAR GANJIThe Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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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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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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