We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
AKBAR GANJIThere 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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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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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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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 should put away the militaristic outlook.
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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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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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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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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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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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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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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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