We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
AKBAR GANJIWhy 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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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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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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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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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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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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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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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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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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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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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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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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