The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
AKBAR GANJIReligion 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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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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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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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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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 number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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 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 see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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