Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
AKBAR GANJIThree of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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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 I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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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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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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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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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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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The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and…kind of slogans that are…they fool the people.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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What I’m worried about is that, in case that happens [nuclear explosion], then the Iranian people are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price. But none of the Western countries have seriously talked about this.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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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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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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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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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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